Bell, C. A., Gitomer, D. H., Savage, C. and Haines McKenna, A. (2019) A synthesis of research on and measurement of STEM teacher preparation. Technical Report. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Abstract
There are research syntheses that review what the field knows about various aspects of STEM teacher preparation (e.g., National Research Council, 2000; Wilson, 2011) and reviews of teacher preparation across subjects (e.g., Cochran-Smith & Zeichner, 2013; Cochran-Smith, Villegas, Abrams, Chavez-Moreno, Mills & Stern, 2016). This review takes up yet another, related topic -- the research and measurement approaches used to study STEM teacher preparation. Drawing on recent articles in STEM and general teacher education journals, the review takes a situated perspective and categorizes the research into seven inductively developed purposes: understanding STEM preservice teacher learning and development, improving educator preparation programs, contributing to program accountability, describing and understanding relationships between STEM preparation and valued outcomes, understanding assessments and measurement of STEM preparation, framing and reframing issues of STEM preparation, and understanding teacher educators and their practices. Within each of these purposes, the review summarizes the questions and phenomena under investigation and the methodological approaches used to understand these questions and phenomena. The authors offer insights about the questions and phenomena that have not yet been addressed in each purpose and suggest varied research agendas that could help the field strengthen research on and measurement of STEM teacher preparation.
| Item Type: | Research Reports or Papers (Technical Report) |
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| Additional Information: | Part of the 2019 AAAS ARISE Commissioned Paper Series. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. DUE1548986 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation. |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Savage, Dr Corey |
| Authors: | Bell, C. A., Gitomer, D. H., Savage, C., and Haines McKenna, A. |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Educational Leadership & Policy |
| Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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