Communicating effectively with parents and carers is an important skill for pre-service teachers to develop. However, they often graduate underprepared due to limited opportunities for parent interaction during their course. When engaging with parents, pre-service teachers must be able to confidently articulate their pedagogical choices, provide…

This study aimed to determine the relationship between preservice English teachers' special field competencies and their possible selves regarding their first year in the profession. The study, adopted by the quantitative research approach, is an example of a relational screening model. The sample of the study consists of a total of 357 preservice…

This study explored college students' civic education ideologies in an entry-level elementary education course using Q methodology. The study asked the students to sort previously developed survey items measuring ideology onto a pyramid ranging from agree to disagree. The analysis found four patterns among students, which were labeled critical…

Learning agility is a relatively novel concept and has the potential to be considered an important characteristic of an effective teacher. Thus, a scale to measure it might be beneficial especially for selecting and recruiting teachers. Based on this notion, the purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure the learning agility of…

This manuscript is born from contemplating and exploring how it is that we see so little systemic change in STEM education after so many years of working toward it, including the insidious persistence of systems of oppression, and historical and generational exploitation that our current critical, social justice efforts in STEM teacher preparation…

This research aimed to evaluate the perceptions of prescience teachers about distance education at a state university in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants of the research, selected with the criterion sampling technique, consisted of 50 prescience teachers studying at a state university in the 2020-2021 academic year. As the…

This study investigated the relationship between motivation and academic self-efficacy of teacher candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic period. In addition, the mediating role of self-directed learning skills was also explored. In this study that is based on a correlational design, data were collected from 992 teacher candidates studying in…

Purpose: This study aims to assess the impact of sustainability pedagogies on students' sustainability consciousness (SC) in the online instructional settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-method, embedded research design was applied to conduct the research. The participants of the study were the pre-service…

This research reports on some results of the Initiation FONDECYT Project "Presence and importance of integrating research in teaching education and how it is perceived by students and lecturers". It aims at identifying student-teachers' perceptions about intent to research, research activities conducted by student-teachers as part of…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between instructors' common content knowledge, knowledge of instructional tasks, and knowledge of student errors and preservice teachers' common content knowledge and knowledge of instructional tasks in gymnastics, soccer, and volleyball. Participants were 23 university instructors and 819…

Background/purpose: The study aimed to investigate relationships between preservice teachers' teacher readiness level, attitudes towards the teaching profession, and organizational attraction perceptions. Materials/methods: Relational survey method, one of the quantitative research methods, was employed in the study. The sample of the study…

Teacher training requires teachers to learn not only the academic content they must teach but to learn how to teach. In the modern world where changes are constant and the teaching demands are many, pre-service teachers must learn skills but they must also learn certain attitudes and beliefs that will allow them to be successful and effective in…

This study examines how preservice elementary mathematics teachers create patterns, write pattern problems, and prepare and apply lesson plans on this topic. In this context, five preservice elementary mathematics teachers who were in the final semester of their undergraduate education volunteered to participate in this research. The study was…

Teachers' literacy identities inform how they teach reading. Only about half, however, view themselves as enthusiastic readers, and up to 40% have negative attitudes toward reading. The repercussions are great: not only do teachers who are unenthusiastic about reading produce uninspired students, but they also use fewer research-based reading…

Individualization and iterative design are essential components of the assessment and treatment of challenging behavior. Currently, there are few validated frameworks for engaging in iterative processes. Due to the nature of single-case design, empirically rigorous evaluations of decision-tree processes are particularly prohibitive.…