Developing Scientific Reasoning Abilities in Pre-service Teachers

多学科(99)为了有效地为劳动力做准备，学生不仅需要学习科学内容(事实)，还需要学习高级的可转移的推理技能。通过这些技能的发展和实践，学生们将为在未来的职业生涯中成功地处理现实世界的任务做好更好的准备。探究式教学不仅促进了科学推理能力的提高，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教师需要在自己的学科知识和高级推理技能方面都有能力。许多教师培训计划包括基于探究的课程，以便在模拟最佳教学实践的同时，既培养内容知识，又培养一般能力，如科学推理。许多机构的创新教师教育项目现在都有许多专门为职前教师设计的探究式课程。然而，有证据表明(通过对学生的自主学习能力和他们对科学本质的理解的前后测试)，许多职前教师没有发展这些关键技能。为了回应这一需求，该项目正在开发面向SR的培训模块，这些模块可以很容易地转移到其他机构的教师培训计划中

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