Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Jabber Aljabber Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 296 ISBN: 9783838312293
Описание
The purpose of this work was to investigate the attitudes of Saudi secondary preservice science teachers (SPSTs) toward science teaching practices. The essential goal was to use generated findings to improve the current secondary science education programs in Saudi Arabia and to develop better science teacher practices. The selected practices were posted by the National Research Council in 1999. These indicated that students learn science best through understanding of science rather than memorization of scientific facts and concepts, building new knowledge and understanding on what is already known and believed, formulating new knowledge by modifying and refining current concepts and by adding new concepts to what is already known, taking care of their own learning, social learning environments and interactions, and application of knowledge to novel situations. This work was based on SPSTs in four teachers’ colleges located in cities: Riyadh, Makkah, Taif, &...