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Preservice Science Teachers' Experiences With Repeated, Guided Inquiry, Amy B. Slack
Preservice Science Teachers' Experiences With Repeated, Guided Inquiry, Amy B. Slack
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice science teachers’ experiences with repeated scientific inquiry (SI) activities. The National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) stress students should understand and possess the abilities to do SI. For students to meet these standards, science teachers must understand and be able to perform SI; however, previous research demonstrated that many teachers have naïve understandings in this area. Teacher preparation programs provide an opportunity to facilitate the development of inquiry understandings and abilities. In this study, preservice science teachers had experiences with two inquiry activities that were repeated three times each. …