Understanding and affecting science teacher candidates’ scientific reasoning in introductory astrophysics

This study reports on a content course for science immersion teacher candidates that emphasized authentic practice of science and thinking scientifically in the context of introductory astrophysics. We explore how 122 science teacher candidates spanning three cohorts did and did not reason scientifi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richard Steinberg, Sebastien Cormier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-09-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.020111