Providing support focused on real challenges is critical in retaining highly qualified new
science teachers, but the field lacks a systematic description of these teachers' needs. The …

Drawing on literature since 1997, this review explores the effects of teacher induction on
beginning teachers' conceptions and practice of teaching, and it identifies three approaches …

This chapter focuses on changes in large-scale assessments in science education, at the
international, national, and state levels. Historically, these assessments are for purposes …

This study examined the knowledge, beliefs and efforts of five prospective teachers to enact
teaching science as inquiry, over the course of a one‐year high school fieldwork experience …

Informal mentors likely play a substantial role in novice teacher learning, yet we know little
about them, especially in relation to formal mentoring, which is the cornerstone to most …

Capturing Science Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs: The Development of the Teacher
Beliefs Interview Page 1 Electronic Journal of Science Education Vol. 11, No. 2 (2007) © 2007 …

El movimiento educativo STEM persigue incrementar las vocaciones científico-tecnológicas
y conecta distintas herramientas, perspectivas y metodologías didácticas. El aprendizaje …

'Science as inquiry'is a key content standard in the National Science Education Standards to
be enacted by US science teachers. This paper is the result of a study that was conducted in …

Reform‐based curriculum materials have been suggested as a mechanism to make inquiry‐
based instruction more prevalent in secondary science classrooms, specifically when …

This investigation explores the effectiveness of a teacher preparation program aligned with
situated learning theory on preservice science teachers' use of technology during their …