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Judith Mulholland

Researcher at Australian Catholic University

Publications -  26
Citations -  1136

Judith Mulholland is an academic researcher from Australian Catholic University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Science education & Teacher education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 26 publications receiving 1080 citations.

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Teacher induction and elementary science teaching: enhancing self-efficacy

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal case study of an elementary teacher, Katie, during her transition from preservice to inservice teaching is presented, where the concept of self-efficacy belief is used as a framework for presenting the findings of the study.
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Growing the tree of teacher knowledge: Ten years of learning to teach elementary science

TL;DR: In this article, the development of one elementary science teacher's knowledge over a 10-year period was examined using the metaphor of a knowledge tree, and it was shown that science knowledge is the major branch of science content knowledge, but it is soon overshadowed by the general teaching and interactive knowledge branches of science PCK.
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Caring and Elementary Teaching: The Concerns of Male Beginning Teachers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report findings from a research project on the early career path of a group of male elementary school teachers and explore the disparities between how male and female teachers are permitted to relate to their elementary-age students.
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Assessment of Science Teaching Efficacy of Preservice Teachers in an Australian University

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of 314 elementary preservice teachers responded to the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI; L. G. Enochs & I. M. Riggs, 1990), which assesses two teaching efficacy dimensions: personal science teaching efficacy beliefs (PSTEB) and science teaching outcome expectation (STOE).
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Breaking the Cycle: Preparing Elementary Teachers to Teach Science.

TL;DR: The authors described the experiences of five mature-age preservice teachers in a semester unit of science education, which was designed to help teachers examine and make explicit their ideas about science and science teaching and consider ways in which they might put those ideas into practice.