The Simulated Classroom Biology

A simulated classroom environment for capturing the action-oriented professional knowledge of pre-service teachers about evolution

verfasst von
Julian Fischer, Nils Machts, Till Bruckermann, Jens Möller, Ute Harms
Abstract

Background: The professional knowledge of pre-service teachers is highly important for effective and successful teaching. In recent years, many research groups have been engaged in developing simulated classroom environments to capture especially the pedagogical knowledge (PK) of pre-service teachers, neglecting the content-related facets of professional knowledge such as pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Objectives: In the present study, we describe the development of a simulated classroom environment—the Simulated Classroom Biology (SCR

Bio)—and provide evidence regarding its validity to assess pre-service biology teachers' action-oriented PCK in the area of evolution. Methods: This study examined the evidence supporting the validity of using the SCR

Bio to investigate action-oriented PCK of pre-service biology teachers. The (1) evidence based on test content (expert ratings) and the (2) evidence based on relation to other variables (known-groups comparison) was obtained. We tested the SCR

Bio with N = 76 German pre-service biology teachers. Results and Conclusions: Our results show the successfully operationalized PCK in the SCR

Bio through explicit allocation of specific misconceptions to each virtual student's answer and the valid measurement of pre-service biology teachers' action-oriented PCK. This results in a validated simulated classroom environment for pre-service but also in-service teachers. In the future, the SCR

Bio will be developed from an assessment instrument to a training tool to simulate explicit teaching situations. This allows to complement the predominantly theoretical components of university-based teacher education with practice-based simulated classroom environments.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en)
IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU)
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Band
38
Seiten
1765-1778
Anzahl der Seiten
14
ISSN
0266-4909
Publikationsdatum
29.11.2022
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Ausbildung bzw. Denomination, Angewandte Informatik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12718 (Zugang: Offen)