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Students and School Characteristics Related to Elementary School Students' Views of the Nature of Science
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Hacieminoglu, Esme; Ertepinar, Hamide; Yilmaz-Tüzün, Özgul; Çakir, Hasan – Education 3-13, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate student- and school-level factors that help to explain the difference in the nature of science (NOS) views. Overall, the design of this study is correlational. The sample consisted of 3062 students enrolled in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades of elementary schools in Turkey. A hierarchical linear…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
The Nature of Prospective Mathematics Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The Case of Multiplication of Fractions
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Isiksal, Mine; Cakiroglu, Erdinc – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate prospective mathematics teachers' knowledge of common conceptions and misconceptions that sixth and seventh grade students had about multiplication of fractions. In addition, prospective teachers' knowledge of the sources of these misconceptions and strategies they knew to overcome these misconceptions…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Interviews, Memorization, Grade 7