Inservice workshop for high school physics teachers : an evaluation

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Terry Neal Carroll (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
Ernest W. Lee

Abstract: The primary purpose of this study was to determine the short-term and long-term changes in content knowledge of physics teachers who participated in a 5-day inservice workshop. The study examined the relationships between participants’ content knowledge changes and physics teaching experience, formal academic preparation, and materials development and teaching. The study also compared participants' performance on conceptual questions and analytical problems. The subjects consisted of 22 high school physics teachers who participated in an inquiry inservice workshop held at North Carolina State University in 1988. Analysis of the data consisted of comparisons between the pretest scores and both the short-term and long-term posttest scores to determine content knowledge changes in each of the physics topic areas studied. To test for statistical significance between pretest and posttests, a one-tailed dependent t test was used.

Additional Information

Publication
Dissertation
Language: English
Date: 1989
Subjects
Physics teachers $x In-service training
High school teachers $x In-service training
Teachers $x In-service training

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