An Investigation of Preservice and Inservice Elementary Teachers' Understanding of the Nature of Scientific Process Skill
| Autor: | Hsiung, Fang-Hsueh, 熊芳雪 |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 86 This research was an attempt to investigate the understanding of the nature of scientific process skill owned by 412 preservice elementary teachers from National Pintung Teachers College and National Tainan Teachers College and 976 inservice elementary teachers from different schools located in Kaohsiung and Pingtung area. The "Questionnaire of the Nature of Scientific Process Skill(QNSPK)", Adapted from Wisconsin Inventory Science Process (WISP,1967) and Science Process Inventory (SPI,1967),were developed and administered. The results from QNSPK were statistically analyzed with Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS).The major findings include: 1.The preservice elemenyary teachers understand the nature of scientific process skill on observing,measuring,classifying,experimenting, communication a little, but they do not understand the nature of scientific process skill on predicting and hypothesizing. 2.The inservice elementary teachers understand the nature of scientific process skill on measuring,communication and observing, and they also understand the nature of scientific process skill on classifying,experimenting and hypothesizing a little;yet,they do not understand the nature of scientific process skill on predicting. 3.The inservice teachers were far better than the preservice teachers in understanding the nature of scientific process skill on observing,measuring, communication and hypothesizing. The inservice teachers and the preservice teachers understand the nature of scientific process skill on classifying and experimenting a little, and they all do not understand the nature of predicting in terms of scientific process skill. 4.The above findings are offered as reference for elementary teachers as their prior knowledge. Also, they can be used as a guide for inservice teachers'' training and scientific educational course design. Keywords: science education. the nature of science. the nature of scientific process skill. preservice teacher. inservice teacher. |
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