Acceptance, Understanding & Experience: Exploring Obstacles to Evolution Education among Advanced Placement Teachers

Obstacles to continuing education.

An earlier study showed that low attendance at section 63 courses of continuing education was not explained by dissatisfaction with content or methods employed in these programmes. In this enquiry to the same sample of 105 general practitioners, several additional factors were studied related to enjoyment of professional role, practice skills and perceived obstacles to continuing education. Thi...

Exploring Relations Among Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Ideas About Evolution, Understanding of Relevant Science Concepts, and College Science Coursework

This study investigated the relations among preservice elementary teachers’ ideas about evolution, their understanding of basic science concepts and college science coursework. Forty-two percent of 240 participants did not accept the theory of human evolution, but held inconsistent ideas about related topics, such as co-existence of humans and dinosaurs and plate tectonics. Accepting the theory...

Exploring the Relationship between Teachers’ Experience with Curriculum and Their Understanding of Implicit Unit Structures

This study investigates teachers’ understanding of underlying unit structures including: the relationship between lessons and curriculum design principles; and the connections among lessons in a unit. We investigated: (1) teachers’ understanding of curriculum design principles; and (2) the role of teachers’ experiences with curriculum units in their understanding of underlying unit structures. ...

Exploring the Innovative Personality Characteristics among Teachers

The aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of innovative personality among teachers in Malaysia. Samples of the research were randomly selected among secondary school teachers in three districts in Malaysia. Research instrument was self-developed by the researchers based on interviews carried out with some resource persons who are both experts and authoritative in their fields, as ...

Obstacles to acceptance of clinical decision analysis.