Trade Books in Elementary Education : Misconceptions in Science
Author
Wiles, Heather T.
Abstract
Elementary pre-service teachers are required to take only a few science courses and are not likely to have the pedagogical content knowledge necessary to choose accurate science trade books. Incorporating trade books in the content areas is a method for integrating subjects and is a common practice among elementary teachers. This study investigates the ability of pre-service elementary teachers to identify misconceptions in science trade book excerpts chosen by the researcher. Survey results were analyzed based on pre-service teachers' responses to a science content question. Often, students focused on misconceptions related to anthropomorphism when they were unsure of the science content as shown by the true/false question. Each of the teacher educators interviewed had experiences with several pre-service teachers' lack of content knowledge affecting performance in the classroom.
Date
2011
Citation:
APA:
Wiles, Heather T..
(January 2011).
Trade Books in Elementary Education : Misconceptions in Science
(Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3601.)
MLA:
Wiles, Heather T..
Trade Books in Elementary Education : Misconceptions in Science.
Master's Thesis. East Carolina University,
January 2011. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3601.
September 22, 2023.
Chicago:
Wiles, Heather T.,
“Trade Books in Elementary Education : Misconceptions in Science”
(Master's Thesis., East Carolina University,
January 2011).
AMA:
Wiles, Heather T..
Trade Books in Elementary Education : Misconceptions in Science
[Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
January 2011.
Publisher
East Carolina University