What do students want in their science teachers and their science lessons?

Show simple item record

dc.contributor.author Maharaj-Sharma, Rawatee
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-03T16:09:44Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-03T16:09:44Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier.citation Maharaj-Sharma, R. (2013). What do students want in their science teachers and their science lessons? Caribbean Curriculum, 20, 101-113. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1017-5636
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2139/17614
dc.description.abstract Likert-type questionnaires were completed by 392, 15-year-old students from 13 schools across Trinidad and Tobago. Data gained from the questionnaires were used to report on those characteristics students deemed desirable in their science teachers. Students' views were sought on four key elements of good practice in science teaching: teachers' subject matter competence, teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, teachers' affectivity towards students, and the nature of science lessons taught by teachers. The data were analysed in the quantitative paradigm to yield response category sample percentages, which were used to make comparisons among the four target areas. The findings show that, for students, teachers' affectivity was the most important characteristic of a good science teacher. The second most favoured characteristic for students was teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, which was followed by teachers' subject matter knowledge en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine en_US
dc.subject Science education en_US
dc.subject Secondary school teachers en_US
dc.subject Science teachers en_US
dc.subject Teacher characteristics en_US
dc.subject Student attitudes en_US
dc.subject Secondary school students en_US
dc.subject Trinidad and Tobago en_US
dc.title What do students want in their science teachers and their science lessons? en_US
dc.type Article en_US


Files in this item

Files Size Format View
Science Teacher ... Lessons Maharaj-Sharma.pdf 200.5Kb PDF Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search UWISpace


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account