What type of teacher are you?

By John Parkinson2009-05-01T00:00:00

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Researchers investigate the types of questions used by science teachers who are influenced by a constructive approach to teaching and those who are not

Ibrahim Erdogan of Mus Alparslan University, Turkey, and Todd Campbell of Utah State University, US, have characterised teachers into two groups, ie high-level and low-level users of a constructivist approach to teaching in the classroom. To gain further insight into the practices of these two distinct groups, they examined the types of questions the teachers used in their teaching.¹

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