http://scholars.ntou.edu.tw/handle/123456789/21544
標題: | Science teaching in kindergartens: factors associated with teachers' self-efficacy and outcome expectations for integrating science into teaching | 作者: | Chen, Yi-Chun Wu, Hsin-Kai Hsin, Ching-Ting |
關鍵字: | Teacher self-efficacy;outcome expectations;science teaching;early childhood | 公開日期: | 14-四月-2022 | 出版社: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | 來源出版物: | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION | 摘要: | Recently, much importance has been placed on early science education. This study examined the associations between kindergarten teachers' science teaching self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and their integration of science into teaching, and investigated how four potential factors (i.e. mastery experience, interpersonal support, previous science learning experience, and perceptions of the importance of science) predict kindergarten teachers' self-efficacy and outcome expectations for science teaching. Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze questionnaire data collected from 813 teachers in public and private kindergartens (teaching children aged 4-6). The results confirmed the association between teachers' self-efficacy and their outcome expectations. When both self-efficacy and outcome expectations were taken into account to predict the degree of science integration into teaching, only science teaching self-efficacy was significantly influential. Moreover, this study revealed that all four factors were significantly associated with teachers' science teaching self-efficacy, of which mastery experience was the most potent. On the other hand, only teachers' perceptions of the importance of science and the interpersonal support they received played a significant role in directly predicting their science teaching outcome expectations. The results could shed light on how to better prepare and support early childhood teachers to integrate science into their classroom teaching. |
URI: | http://scholars.ntou.edu.tw/handle/123456789/21544 | ISSN: | 0950-0693 | DOI: | 10.1080/09500693.2022.2062800 |
顯示於: | 師資培育中心 |
在 IR 系統中的文件,除了特別指名其著作權條款之外,均受到著作權保護,並且保留所有的權利。