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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Service science"”.
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Secondary pre-service science teachers learning to use students’ ideas
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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The nature and quality of pre-service science teacher education and transition to teaching in Lagos State, Nigeria
The poor state of learning in pre-service science teacher education is typical. of the problems in the Nigeria education sector (Afe, 2001; Odubunmi, 2006; Okebukola, 2004). Little research based evidence about Nigerian pre-service science teacher education has been reported in the literature, …
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Competency-Based Curriculum for a Master's Program in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME): An Online Delphi Study
… for an interdisciplinary master's program in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME). Specifically, the objective was to ascertain the competencies and courses that are relevant for developing a competency model for a service scientist and a curriculum blueprint for SSME. The study …
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ZAMBIAN PRE-SERVICE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' CHEMICAL REASONING AND ABILITY
… was two-fold: examine junior high school pre-service science teachers' chemical reasoning; and establish the extent to which the pre-service science teachers' chemical abilities explain their chemical reasoning. A sample comprised 165 junior high school pre-service science teachers at Mufulira …
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Preparing Educators to Employ Design-Based Engineering Practices in K-12 Science
… a methodological framework for preparing science educators to implement design-based engineering practices to intentionally teach targeted science content. Using a modified Delphi the study looked to answer the following research questions (RQs): RQ1: How should teacher educators prepare …
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The Effects of Inservice Science Teachers’ Self-Efficacy on Science Achievement using the 5E Model of Instruction.
<p>Science achievement has been a major focus in our educational system. While several learning models effectively increase science achievement, the nation is still not progressing adequately. A gap in the literature shows the need to find the effects of teachers’ self-efficacy, specifically with …
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From Dichotomy to Continuum: Linking the Recruitment and Retention of Science Teachers
… minority communities, struggle to find qualified science teachers to fill vacancies, a situation that has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This science teacher shortage is caused by a combination of low levels of recruitment into the profession and high levels of attrition from …
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Developing skills to explain scientific concepts during initial teacher education: the role of peer assessment
… peer assessment could facilitate change in pre-service science teachers’ conceptions and practices regarding conceptual explanations in science teaching.<br/><br/>In a quasi-experimental design, a ten-session peer assessment intervention was carried out with thirty seven pre-service science …
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Influence of Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs about Diversity on Science Teaching and Learning
… of the background experiences of five pre-service Science teachers on their beliefs about diversity were the focus for this study. These individuals were followed throughout their teacher preparation program. The data for this study consisted of interviews, conducted before and after …
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Gains and Losses in Ecosystem Services: Trade-off and Efficiency Perspectives
Humans rely on nature for various ecosystem services to enhance their well-being. However, the gains in human well-being have been achieved at the losses in many ecosystem services. One of the key challenges in ecosystem service science is to determine how to manage ecosystems for multiple services …
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Enhancing student learning and conceptual understanding of electric circuits
… in an electric circuits module for pre-service science teachers and addressed the concept of voltage in a variety of contexts, including multiple batteries in multiple loops and RC circuits. This thesis details how the curriculum addressed the concept of voltage qualitatively and how it …
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“Because I did what she told me to do.” Understanding the Identity Work of Elementary Students of Color in the Science Classroom and how a Teacher’s Positionality Impacts Student Learning
… elementary students of color constructed their science identities at a time in which the Next Generation Science Standards were taking root within their school’s science program. While the standards were developed under the paradigm of science being representative of a body of knowledge informed …
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The effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) online on students’ creative and critical thinking in physics at tertiary level in Malaysia
… A total of 102 students from the School of Science and Technology (SST) and the School of Education and Social Development were the subjects of the study. The SST students were science physics students (N = 61), and the SESD students were pre-service science teachers (N = 41). Results of the …
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Science Research Literacy Through Immersive Professional Development in Biomedical Research
High school science teachers require increased skills in science research literacy, so that their students develop research competencies in the classroom (Evans, Warning, & Christodoulou, 2017; Udompong, Traiwichitkhun, & Wongwanich, 2014). For teachers to promote a scientific atmosphere, …
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Service Innovation in Manufacturing: Co-Creating Value in the UK Defence Industry through Partnering
This research examines service innovation in a large-scale manufacturing firm. It explores how co-creation, a foundational premise of the emerging field of service science, is operationalised as a competitive strategy. Globally, manufacturing firms, including those in the defence sector resistant …
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The development of pre-service teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in electromagnetism
… the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of pre-service teachers in the topic of electromagnetism, during a physics methodology module. The study is guided by the following question: How is the development of the PCK of pre-service teachers influenced by the explicit inclusion of topic specific …