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- Title
Creencias de profesores chilenos de biología sobre la preparación de la enseñanza.
- Authors
Ravanal Moreno, Eduardo; López-Cortés, Francisco; Rodríguez Moreno, Luis
- Abstract
Teachers' beliefs and knowledge are important issues to explore because of the influence they have on the preparation and teaching of biology. Beliefs are the most influential aspects in the teaching profession, and for this reason our interest on exploring them. The study focuses on the in-service biology teachers' beliefs on the preparation of biology teaching and its relationship with some dimensions of the teaching assessment in Chile. To do that, a Likert-scale questionnaire for the preparation of biology teaching (PEB) and biology teaching (EB) was applied to 92 in-service biology teachers in the Metropolitan Region and Coquimbo Region, Chile. This article presents results of an analysis of the PEB dimension. The analysis adopts a descriptiveinterpretative approach complemented with the use of quantitative techniques. The results indicate that the teachers ascribe to all those beliefs that represent a constructivist perspective of the preparation of teaching; nevertheless, that tendency changes when the teachers declare what they believe to do in the classroom, being the beliefs of traditional tendency the most representative. We find some controversies between what the teachers think it should be done and what is thought to be done, particularly when it is referred to the matter subject organization and meaning of assessment in biology. The exploration the teachers' beliefs and performance should help us to think about how to guide the processes of initial and ongoing teacher training in order to improve the performance and learning outcomes for both teacher and students.
- Subjects
BIOLOGY teachers; BIOLOGY students; BIOLOGY education; BIOLOGY textbooks; TEACHING
- Publication
Revista Eureka sobre Enseñanza y Divulgación de las Ciencias, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1697-011X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25267/Rev_Eureka_ensen_divulg_cienc.2018.v15.i3.3601