ERIC Number: EJ1442704
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-9584
EISSN: EISSN-1938-1328
Newly Designed Laboratory Course for Preservice Chemistry Teachers: Do the Students Rate Their Practical Skills as Relevant for Their Future Profession?
Jolanda Hermanns; Lisa Zo¨llner; Clara Filschke
Journal of Chemical Education, v99 n11 p3713-3722 2022
The laboratory course in organic chemistry for preservice chemistry teachers has been designed anew. For the course, only 2 weeks (8 h a day) are available. Therefore, we wanted to use this time effectively, which led to the following main goals: the students should achieve practical skills, understand the practical procedures they had to conduct, and apply those well-founded to new problems. Besides this, the students should get to know procedures and experiments for their future profession. The design of the course focuses on the concept of "school-related content knowledge" that was applied and adapted for planning this laboratory course. The new course has been evaluated using the results of two questionnaires as well as the content of the reflection tasks that were part of the students' laboratory journals. The students are very content with this newly designed course and are of the opinion that they developed practical skills and that they are able to apply those skills for new experiments. They also rate those skills as useful for their future profession as a chemistry teacher.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Relevance (Education), Laboratory Training, Science Process Skills, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Laboratory Procedures, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Reflective Teaching, Journal Writing
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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