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Assessing New Zealand High School Science Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Owusu, Kofi Acheaw; Conner, Lindsey; Astall, Chris – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2015
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is the knowledge required for effective technology integration in teaching. In this study, New Zealand high school science teachers' TPACK was assessed through an online survey. The data and its analysis revealed that New Zealand's high school science teachers in general had a high perception of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Secondary School Teachers
Educator Preparedness to Teach Environmental Science in Secondary Schools
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Guillory, Linus Joseph, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study assesses the environmental proficiency of Texas life science educators certified from 2003 to 2011 by analyzing their TExES 138 8-12 exam results in domains V and VI. The sample consisted of all the individuals that took and passed the TExES 138 life science 8-12 exam. During this period, approximately 41% of the individuals who took…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biological Sciences, Science Teachers, Scientific Literacy
Teacher Effectiveness: The Conditions that Matter Most and a Look to the Future
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Berry, Barnett – Center for Teaching Quality, 2010
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers make the greatest difference to student achievement. With new statistical and analytical methods used by a wide range of researchers, evidence has been mounting that teacher quality can account for a large share of variance in student test…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement