Increasing Teacher Preparedness Through Effective Student Teaching
Category: Teacher and Leader Development
Instrument Overview
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Strengths
Provides insight for professional development by identifying areas where teachers may need support in implementing science-as-practice approaches.
Cautions
Relies on self-reported implementation, so actual classroom practice may differ (desirability bias possible)
This suite of surveys is designed to explore how secondary science teachers understand and implement the NGSS science practices. Together, the surveys measure three interconnected aspects: teachers’ epistemic orientations (views about how scientific knowledge is generated), their understanding of the purposes and ends of each science practice, and their self-reported implementation of these practices in the classroom. By combining these measures, the suite helps identify how teachers’ epistemic beliefs influence their enactment of student-centered, knowledge-generative science instruction and informs professional development to support science-as-practice approaches.
Organization
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
25 minutes
Access and Use
Open Access
No
