ERIC ED603987: Views of Pre Service Teachers pdf

ERIC ED603987: Views of Pre Service Teachers

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The aim of this study is to investigate the views of pre-service mathematics teachers taking compulsory Physics-I (mechanics) and Physics-II (electricity) about the mistakes they encountered in the textbooks which they benefited from and the predictions of instructors teaching physics courses about these views. A total of 75 preservice teachers, 28 males and 47 females, in the second year of their study in the primary school mathematics teaching program in an Education Faculty of a state university comprised the sampling of the research. A feedback form made up of three-open ended questions and “open-ended questionnaire interview” prepared by the researcher were used as a data collection tool. After the questions were asked to the pre-service teachers, an interview was carried out with 5 instructors teaching Physics-I and Physics-II courses and they were asked to indicate the percentages of the views written by the pre-service teachers in their responses to the open-ended questions.

The research revealed that pre-service mathematics teachers stated negative views about the mistakes in the textbooks they benefited from in the physics course, the use of textbooks including mistakes and the effect of these books with mistakes on their motivation to study the physics course and these views were found to be at the rate of 62.6%, 81.4% and 57.8%, respectively. While pre-service teachers determined their views about the mistakes in the textbooks they benefited from in the physics course, the use of textbooks including mistakes, and the effect of these books with mistakes on their motivation to study the physics course, it was revealed that the situation which appeared as a result of which opinion they had at what rate was different from the predictions of the instructors teaching the course related to these views

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2013-07
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Yildiz, Ali, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers, Physics, Error Patterns, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Elementary School Mathematics, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Mechanics (Physics), Energy, Knowledge Level

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