Developing Scientific Reasoning Abilities in Pre-service Teachers

多学科（99）为了有效地为劳动力做好准备，学生不仅需要学习科学内容（事实），还需要学习先进的可转移推理技能。 通过这些技能的发展和实践，学生将更好地准备在未来的职业生涯中成功地处理现实世界的任务。 探究式教学不仅促进了教师的科学推理能力，而且教师的科学推理技能也显著影响了他们有效使用探究方法的能力。有效的STEM教师需要能够胜任自己的内容知识以及先进的推理技能。许多教师准备计划包括基于探究的课程，以发展内容知识和一般能力，如科学推理，同时模拟最佳教学实践。 许多机构的创新教师教育计划现在有许多专门为职前教师设计的探究式课程。 然而，有证据（来自学生的SR能力和他们的理解的科学性质的前和后测试），许多职前教师没有开发这些关键技能。 为了满足这一需要，该项目正在开发面向教师代表的培训模块，这些模块可以随时转移到其他机构的教师准备方案中

Multidisciplinary (99)To be effectively prepared for the workforce, students need to learn not only science content (facts) but also advanced transferable reasoning skills. Through development and practice of these skills students will be better prepared to successfully handle real-world tasks in future careers. Not only does inquiry-based instruction promote scientific reasoning (SR) abilities, but also the SR skills of teachers significantly impact their ability to effectively use inquiry methods. Effective STEM teachers need to be competent in both their own content knowledge as well as advanced reasoning skills. Many teacher preparation programs include inquiry-based courses in order to develop both content knowledge and general abilities, such as scientific reasoning, while modeling best teaching practices. Innovative teacher education programs at many institutions now have many inquiry-based courses designed specifically for pre-service teachers. However, there is evidence (derived through pre- and post-tests of students' SR abilities and their understanding of the nature of science) that many pre-service teachers are not developing these critical skills. In response to this need, this project is developing SR-oriented training modules that can be readily transferred to teacher preparation programs at other institutions