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Science Process Skills: Where Should They Be Taught?
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Gabel, Dorothy; Rubba, Peter – School Science and Mathematics, 1980
This study compared the attitudes toward science teaching and proficiency in the science process skills of elementary education majors enrolled in a physics course v a science methods course. Science process skills appear to be more effectively taught in the physics course. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Educational Research, Higher Education, Methods Courses
Science Preparation of the Elementary Teacher at Indiana University.
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Andersen, Hans O.; Gabel, Dorothy – School Science and Mathematics, 1981
Describes Indiana University's elementary science teacher preparation program. The program consists of three elements or streams: (1) content process stream, (2) the planning stream, and (3) practicing field experience stream. A Basic Science Skills course is the first course in the sequence followed by content courses, methods, and early…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Higher Education, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education
Attitudes toward Science and Science Teaching of Undergraduates according to Major and Number of Science Courses Taken and the Effect of Two Courses.
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Gabel, Dorothy – School Science and Mathematics, 1981
This research determines whether preservice science teachers' attitudes toward science and science teaching and course achievement differed from those of other majors and whether students enrolled in a special course relating the science studied to science teaching effected attitude change. Science majors had a more positive attitude and higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Science, Educational Research, Higher Education