RT journal article
T1 Promoting Enquiry Skills in Trainee Teachers within the Context of the University Ecological Garden
A1 Aragón Núñez, Lourdes
A1 Gómez Chacón, Beatriz
A2 Didáctica
K1 ecological garden
K1 enquiry
K1 initial teacher training
K1 competency level
AB One of the objectives of science teaching and learning is to achieve quality science education,which involves improving initial teacher training. The use of methodologies that promote learning inscience, such as the enquiry-based learning strategy, are encouraged. It is also necessary to provideappropriate contexts that give meaning to the investigation conducted, and arouse the students’interest. The purpose of this study is to identify the skills related to the enquiry competency that futurepre-school teachers acquire after carrying out investigations using the University Ecological Gardenas a context. To undertake this study, a non-experimental quantitative methodology was developedbased on the application of two instruments: the New Practical Test Assessment Inventory (NPTAI),based on the Practical Test Assessment Inventory, and the trainee teachers’ Enquiry CompetencyLevel (ECL), adapted for the present work. Thirty-seven group reports were analysed and recoded toestablish five levels of enquiry competency. A predominance of students with a high level of enquirycompetency as opposed to "pre-scientific" and "unscientific" lower levels was observed. The resultsallowed us to explore the role of the teacher in the monitoring process during the strategy, the contextused, and the main difficulties encountered in the implementation of the strategy.
PB MDPI
SN 2227-7102
YR 2022
FD 2022-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26709
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26709
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 14-nov-2026