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Morrison, Judith; McDuffie, Amy Roth – School Science and Mathematics, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of providing preservice teachers the opportunity to collect real data in a science methods inquiry investigation and using the data, design data displays in their mathematics methods course. The research questions focused on how preservice teachers' understandings of data displays, research…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Research Design, Methods Courses
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Akerson, Valarie L.; Morrison, Judith A.; McDuffie, Amy Roth – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
This study examined the views, and the retention of these views, of 19 preservice elementary teachers as they learned about nature of science (NOS). The preservice teachers participated in a cohort group as they took a science methods course during which they received explicit reflective instruction in nature of science. Through Views of Nature of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses