The Effect of Science Education Classes on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes About Science

Journal Article | July 2019

This study examined the attitudes toward science of elementary preservice teachers at a large public university in Texas. The study utilized a version of the well-established Test of ScienceRelated Attitudes (TOSRA) to…

E–6 Preservice Teachers and Elementary Science Teaching

Journal Article | January 2022

The study assessed the science teaching confidence of preservice teachers in teaching elementary science by addressing two research questions: (1) Did preservice teachers understand the science concepts well enough to…

Breathing New Life Into Elementary Science Preservice Teacher Education

Journal Article | July 2018

Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Experience With Wind Energy Education Through a Cooperative Learning Experience

Journal Article | January 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers toward wind energy education. The participants for this study were preservice teachers enrolled in a science methods for…

Using Citizen Science to Engage Preservice Elementary Educators in Scientific Fieldwork

Journal Article | November 2016

Preservice elementary teachers’ lack of confidence in teaching science is an ongoing concern. Only 29% of elementary teachers in the field felt “very well prepared to teach life science,” according to the National…

Student-Centered Learning in an Earth Science, Preservice, Teacher-Education Course

Journal Article | July 2009

In an effort to get elementary teachers to teach more science in the classroom, a required preservice science education course was designed to promote the use of hands-on teaching techniques. This paper describes course…

Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science

Journal Article | May 2022

To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers’ beliefs requires a range of…

Preservice Science Teachers Practice Teaching Online through 4E Instructional Model

Journal Article | August 2021

This article is prepared as part of a “Practice Teaching in Science” course of a teacher education program aiming for developing prospective science teachers’ teaching through inquiry-based instruction involving…

Preservice: Foundations of Science Education

Collection | February 2018

Course materials for Foundations of Science Education

Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Use of Speaking, Listening, and Writing Skills to Understand the Importance of Nature of Science Instruction

Journal Article | July 2020

There has been a focus on improving teachers’ views of nature of science for decades. The method in which researchers improve views of nature of science, however, varies greatly. This study aimed to improve elementary…

All Preservice Science Education resources

List | February 2020

Research and Teaching: Introducing Engineering Design to a Science Teaching Methods Course Through Educational Robotics and Exploring Changes in Views of Preservice Elementary Teachers

Journal Article | November 2017

Preservice elementary teachers need to know how to integrate the engineering design process into their science teaching. In this article, the authors describe how they used the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit as part of a NGSS-…

Measuring Computational Thinking Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Elementary Teachers

Journal Article | July 2020

With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), assessing K–12 science teachers’ self-efficacy in Computational Thinking (CT) is an important research gap to study. Bandura defines self-efficacy as…

STEM Education Needs STEM Talk

Journal Article | October 2021

Integrating Environmental Education into Preservice and Inservice Science Teacher Training

Archived Conference Session | January 2022