A critical aspect of teacher education is gaining pedagogical content knowledge how to teach science for conceptual understanding. Given the time limitations college methods courses, it difficult touch on more than a fraction topics potentially taught across grades K-8, particularly in context relevant pedagogies. This research and development work centers constructing formative assessment resource help expose pre-service teachers greater number within teaching episodes using various modes...

The purpose of this study is to identify the foci and results studies on socioscientific issues (SSI) conducted in Turkey. Additionally, aimed compare with ones internationally. For aim, a literary review empirical related SSI Turkey was carried out. Four criteria were used research included review: which are contemporary (2002- 2012), (sampling Turkish populations), focus science education, first-hand data gathered through investigations. Related databases searched using "SSI Turkey"...

Background: Global Climate Change is a threat to the planet Earth and all living beings on it. Therefore, it important develop policies take actions against climate change. One way do this educate citizens about change which requires having informed teachers.Purpose: The purpose of study was examine role cognitive, behavioral personal variables pre-service teachers' plausibility perceptions global change.Sample: A sample 199 senior teachers at public university in Turkey participated...

This study investigated the influence of metacognitive guidance on pre-service science teachers' scientific knowledge, process skills, and views about nature science. The sample included 48 teachers taking a first-year chemistry laboratory course in public university Turkey. During 11-week course, students conducted 11 experiments. Four scales were administered to control group an experimental as pre- post-tests. Differently from group, discussed design completed reflection form before after...

Purpose This study aims to enable pre‐service teachers cooperate with and participate in solving classroom problems the guidance of academic staff an action research (AR) project. Design/methodology/approach Eight took AR course simultaneously participated a collaborative While learning about steps nature AR, worked designed their own project proposals order solve problems. A questionnaire “doing” reports prepared by were used as instruments. Findings Pre‐service on different together seven...

Science teachers are expected to design inquiry based lessons which include most of the science process skills. The present study examined 21 pre-service teachers’ scientific skills and their competence lab instruction. A six week program was developed implemented improve preservice an lesson. During intervention, there were interactive lectures, discussions, metacognitive prompts, assignments micro-teaching practices related designing lab. participants administered adapted version TIPS-II...

Teachers are expected to improve their students' analytical thinking and decision-making skills through evidence-based critical evaluation processes. In this study, a three-hour workshop was conducted investigate science teachers' views about teaching socio-scientific issues argumentation introducing an instructional scaffold, Model-Evidence Link diagrams promote the use of in classrooms. 125 teachers, who were working public schools urban area Turkey participated workshop. Findings revealed...

This study aims to establish a viable structural model of prospective science teachers' nature (NOS) views, which could be used as an analytical tool for understanding the complex relationships between conceptions NOS and factors possibly affecting their conceptions. In order construct such model, likely that might influence views were hypothesized. These included process skills; attitudes toward teaching; academic achievement in pedagogical courses; social, religious, economic, political,...

The aim of this exploratory research is to understand teaching orientations freshman pre-service science teachersand their rationales for those orientations. Through a mixed method, the current study collected quantitative(Pedagogy Science Teaching Test) and qualitative(semi-structured interviews)data deepen analyze research. sample ofthe quantitative part in consisted of143 teachers (122 females 21 males) purposefully drawn from state university Turkey. To theirrationalesoftheir orientation...

This study aimed to examine the associations between prospective science teachers' values (theoretical, religious, economic, aesthetic, social and political values) their attitudes towards teaching. Cross-sectional research design was used. The adapted versions of Science Teaching Attitudes Scale (STAS-II) Allport Vernon Lindzey Values Tests (SOV) were applied 337 teachers. STAS-II SOV used for assessing toward teaching respectively. As a result list-wise deletion, sample appeared include...

Academic performance on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is important for the economic development of countries. From perspectives social cognitive theory, one predictors academic self-efficacy. In order to measure middle school students’ self-efficacy beliefs in STEM education, Competency Beliefs scale was developed English originally by Chen, Cannady, Schunn, Dorph (2017). this study, it aimed adapt into Turkish provide evidence regarding reliability...

This study aims to examine self-efficacy of pre-service science teachers teach socio-scientific issues (SSI).Twenty-three senior participated in the study.Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI) was modified with an emphasis on SSI rather than scientific issues.The STEBI applied participants before and after intervention.As for six-week intervention, three modules, which focused understanding nature SSI, teaching assessing were followed by micro-teachings selected SSI.At end six...