What is it about?

To investigate quantitatively the longitudinal relationship between pre-service teachers’ knowledge and attitudes on scientific inquiry teaching as part of a short teacher training.

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Why is it important?

Beginning teachers encounter several constraints with respect to scientific inquiry. Depending on their prior beliefs, knowledge and understanding, these constraints affect their teaching of inquiry.

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It appears that even short PCK training seminars may affect pre-service teacher attitudes towards scientific inquiry. Hence, teaching education programmes should be designed to broaden PCK.

Robbert Smit
University of Teacher Education St.Gallen

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This page is a summary of: Interplay of secondary pre-service teacher content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and attitudes regarding scientific inquiry teaching within teacher training, Research in Science & Technological Education, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02635143.2017.1353962.
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