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Schwartz, Marc S.; Shapiro, Irwin I.; Gregory, Bruce – Higher Education Studies, 2013
During a five-year period the authors taught over 100 students in a graduate course (The Nature of Science) counting toward teacher certification at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Despite the fact that students had undergraduate degrees in the sciences, most of them found the application of models in science challenging and the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Scientific Principles, Concept Formation