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Ndembera, Rachel; Hao, Jie; Fallin, Rebekah; Ray, Herman E.; Shah, Lisa; Rushton, Gregory T. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
What teachers know about their content area plays a role in how they effectively enhance the scientific literacy of their students. This leads to questions about teacher content knowledge as they enter the field. The Praxis Earth and Space Science: Content Knowledge Test is the most widely used licensure assessment for aspiring Earth science…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Science Teachers, Earth Science, Racial Differences
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Saxman, Laura J.; Gupta, Preeti; Steinberg, Richard N. – New Educator, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to describe and present results from the fourth year of a five-year collaborative research project between an interactive science center and a local college. The purpose of the project is not only to recruit and train approximately 50 highly qualified science teachers who will teach in New York City public schools, but…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Skills, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Starr, Joshua P. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
The federal "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) legislation required school districts to ensure that all teachers of core academic subjects met the requirements to be designated highly qualified by July 1, 2006. However, because no Maryland counties were able to comply with the 100 percent highly qualified designation by July 1,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Counties
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Livingston, Samuel A.; Rupp, Stacie L. – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
Some previous research results imply that women tend to perform better, relative to men, on constructed-response (CR) tests than on multiple-choice (MC) tests in the same subjects. An analysis of data from several tests used in the licensing of beginning teachers supported this hypothesis, to varying degrees, in most of the tests investigated. The…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Multiple Choice Tests, Beginning Teachers, Hypothesis Testing