NATURE OF SCIENCE, MODELS AND EARTH STRUCTURE MODELS: PORTUGUESE PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS' VIEWS

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2013

Autores

Torres, (Autor) Outra; Moura, R (Autor) FCUP; Vasconcelos, C (Autor) Outra; Amador, (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: GEOCONFERENCE ON ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS, EDUCATION AND LEGISLATION, SGEM 2013, VOL II

Páginas: 461-468

13th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference, SGEM 2013

Albena, BULGARIA, JUN 16-22, 2013

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 2 Citações

Scopus - 4 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências sociais > Ciências da educação

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-009-68F

DOI: 10.5593/sgem2013/be5.v2/s22.015

Abstract (EN): Student knowledge of Nature of Science (NOS) is an important and critical issue to their understanding of science, as well as to the development of scientific literacy. In the same way, the ability to use and generate models is central to scientific literacy and to the learning of science. Having this in mind, and recognizing that teachers' views and practices strongly influence students' learning, we intended to evaluate Portuguese prospective science teachers' (PPST) views of Nature of Science (NOS), models and earth structure models. A questionnaire, focused on those aspects, was applied to 19 prospective science teachers at the University of Porto. In general, the majority of the participants revealed correct perceptions about those issues. However, some inconsistences and alternative conceptions were found.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8