Enrollment Trends in Industrial Arts/Technology Teacher Education From 1970-1990

This study was an instrumentation research. The purpose of the study was to develop and validate a Technology Ability Test (TAT) for admission of students into Technology Teacher Education Programmes in Nigerian Universities. A sample of 120 students drawn from four universities in the southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria that offers the programme was used for the study. Six research questions were answered and two hypotheses tested in the study. The 50 – items TAT that emerged after the preliminary testing was used for data collection. Results of TAT’s psychometric qualities indicated that 80 percent of the items possessed moderate difficulty and high (suitable) discrimination indices. The reliability coefficient obtained from the test is 0.96, which indicates that TAT is very reliable. Results further revealed that gender has slight influence on the Technology Ability Test, students of the federal universities performed marginaly better than their state counterparts and that TAT scores has very low concurrent validity with JAMB scores. The educational implications of the findings when the developed Technology Ability Test (TAT) is adopted included helping admission officers and counselors to objectively identify students with the capability to succeed in technology teacher education programmes in Nigerian Universities and data obtained after the administration will provide efficient indices for future performances of students in technology teacher education, since a valid ability test is also predictive. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher recommended that the developed test be used in admiting candidates into technology teacher education programmes and admission officers be trained on how to use the newly developed test.

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EXPLORING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ IDEAS ABOUT THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM BY USING THE DRAWING METHOD

Journal of Baltic Science Education ◽

10.33225/jbse/14.13.316 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 316-326

Author(s):

Fatma Sasmaz Oren ◽

Ummuhan Ormanci

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Digestive System ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Education Department ◽

Drawing Test ◽

Technology Teacher ◽

Teacher Education Department ◽

Pre Service Teacher ◽

Drawing Method

In this study, it is aimed to identify science and technology pre-service teachers’ ideas about the digestive system by using the drawing method. The study was conducted with 95 third and fourth grade pre-service teachers studying at science and technology teacher education department. In the study, a drawing test and The Draw -A-Digestive System Test Rubric (DADST-R), which is developed by the researchers for the analysis of drawings, were used. The scores that science and technology pre-service teachers get from DADST-R are examined in terms of sub-dimensions and the dimension they are best at is found to be digestive system organs while the dimension they are having the most trouble with is establishing connections among digestive system organs. Based on these results, some suggestions were given with regards to the role of the digestive system in the education system. Key words: digestive system, drawing method, rubric, science and technology pre-service teacher

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Technology Teacher Education

Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series - Encyclopedia of Coastal Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-38889-2_72-1 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

John Ritz

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Technology Teacher

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