The Influence of Teachers’ Knowledge on Student Learning in Middle School Physical Science Classrooms
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...For example, Sadler et al (2013) tested a group of volunteer, experienced middle school (seventh and eighth grade) science teachers on their understanding of the content they were teaching and on the kinds of misconceptions they expected students to show....
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...Teachers’ knowledge of student misconceptions and/or ability to assess students and reveal their misconceptions is thought to be important to effective teaching (Sadler et al. 2013)....
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...In addition, teachers’ poor content knowledge may also lead to students’ misconceptions (Sadler et al. 2013)....
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...While gains appear relatively small (Table 2), it is more useful to express them as effect size, or gain calculated in units of standard deviation of the pretest score (Cohen, 1969)....
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...Here, in the logistic realm, statisticians have developed a whole range of goodness-of-fit measures, and debate continues about their relative strengths and weaknesses (Allen & Le, 2008; Hosmer & Lemeshow, 1989; Menard, 2000)....
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...SMK is defined as the general conceptual understanding of a subject area possessed by a teacher, which is obtained by completing the required coursework (Shulman, 1986)....
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...…for the goodness of fit of the estimated model (intuitively interpretable as the proportion of variance in the dependent variable that is explained by the model), measuring goodness of fit becomes more complicated for hierarchical models that partition the overall variance (Singer & Willett, 2003)....
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...We chose a pseudo-R2 that consists of the squared correlation between the observed and the predicted values (Singer & Willett, 2003, p. 102)....
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