A Practice-Based Professional Development Program to Support Scientific Argumentation from Evidence in the Elementary Classroom

Autor/inn/en	Fishman, Evan J.; Borko, Hilda; Osborne, Jonathan; Gomez, Florencia; Rafanelli, Stephanie; Reigh, Emily; Tseng, Anita; Million, Susan; Berson, Eric
Titel	A Practice-Based Professional Development Program to Support Scientific Argumentation from Evidence in the Elementary Classroom
Quelle	In: Journal of Science Teacher Education, 28 (2017) 3, S.222-249 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1046-560X
DOI	10.1080/1046560X.2017.1302727
Schlagwörter	Faculty Development; Elementary School Teachers; Science Teachers; Science Process Skills; Persuasive Discourse; Practicums; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Teacher Improvement; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Science; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Practicum; Praktikum; Praktika; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kalifornien
Abstract	Considerable evidence suggests that dialogical interaction in the classroom promotes students' scientific knowledge building and reasoning. Hence, scientific argumentation is recognized as a central component of the Next Generation Science Standards. A focus on argumentation, however, requires teachers to adopt instructional practices that facilitate this type of discourse. Therefore, the study reported here examined the impact of a practice-based professional development (PD) program on the scientific discourse practices of teachers and their students. Two cohorts of elementary school teachers attended different versions of the PD: 1 cohort attended the full program (institute, practicum, and follow-up sessions), whereas the other took part in the institute and follow-up days but did not take part in the practicum. We found that all teachers and their students, regardless of the cohort, made statistically significant improvements in their science discourse practices after attending the PD. An unexpected finding was that teachers who attended the full PD (with practicum) did not outperform the teachers who did not attend the practicum. However, students of teachers who did attend the practicum made improvements that approached statistical significance compared to students of teachers who did not attend the practicum. Thus, we report research that provides evidence of an effective model of practice-based PD that helps teachers to address the goals of the Next Generation Science Standards and equips them with instructional practices that promote student learning in science. (As Provided).
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