LeFEB
Professional Development Programs for Science Teachers to Promote Students' Scientific Reasoning Competencies
The aim of the project is to examine the effects of a professional development program on science teachers’ professional competence, their instructions, and ultimately on the development of their students’ scientific reasoning competencies.
Project data
| Research lines | Research Line Professional Competencies of Preschool and School Teachers | ||
| Departments | Biology Education | ||
| Period | since 3/1/2022 | ||
| Status | current | ||
| IPN researchers | Prof. Dr. Moritz Krell (Project lead), Richard Sannert | ||
Scientific methods such as experiments are often used as a means to promote students’ content knowledge. However, to promote scientific reasoning competencies, scientific methods should be used in a way that allows students to gain procedural and epistemic knowledge as well as to develop a metaperspective on scientific methods.
The professional development program developed as part of the LeFEB project supports secondary school biology teachers in using experiments in a way that contributes to promote their students’ scientific reasoning competencies.
The aim of the project is to examine the effects of the professional development program on the teachers’ professional competence, their instructions, and ultimately on the development of their students’ scientific reasoning competencies. The results will be used to learn more about the effective design of professional development programs to promote students' scientific reasoning competencies.
