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Astronomy Education Review / Volume 3 / Issue 2 / RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

2004, AER, 3 (2), 38, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2004015

Identifying A Baseline for Teachers’ Astronomy Content Knowledge

Published 7 February 2005

Eric Brunsell and Jason Marcks

Space Education Initiatives

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A teacher’s scientific understanding has a dramatic impact on students’ ability to learn science. This article describes the results of administering the Astronomy Diagnostic Test to 142 science teachers in Wisconsin. The results show that these teachers are lacking a deep, coherent understanding of astronomy concepts. Implications for these results on professional development of in-service educators are suggested.

© 2005 Eric Brunsell. Copyright assigned to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.

KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

10-12 (or high school), 7-9 (or middle school), General (applies to all topics), Teacher training

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PUBLICATION DATA

ISSN

1539-1515 (online)

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$abstract.society.value is a Member of CrossRef Eric Brunsell. Copyright assigned to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.

ARTICLE DATA

History
Received 28 May 2004
Published online 07 February 2005
Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2004015

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