Pre-Service Elementary Teachers' Ideas about the Nature of Science

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20923507a&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #235.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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To investigate the understanding of the nature of science, pre-service elementary teachers were given the Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Physical Science (EBAPS)(1). The course uses Physics for Elementary Teachers(2), which is a guided inquiry curriculum. For a comparison, the EPABS was also given to other traditional introductory science classes, most notably a large astronomy lecture course for non-science majors. It was found that the pre-service elementary teachers increased their understanding of the nature of science significantly more than more traditional courses.
(1) http://www2.physics.umd.edu/ elby/EBAPS/home.htm
(2) Goldberg, F., Robinson, S., and Otero, V., Physics for Elementary Teachers, It's About Time, 2005.

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