EXAMINATION OF PROSPECTIVE CHEMISTRY TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGIC CONTENT KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING GRAPHS ABOUT SOLUTIONS, SOLUBILITY, AND CHANGE OF STATES TOPICS

Abstract

This study explored the nature of the integration of the three components of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK): 1) Knowledge of the Chemistry Curriculum, 2) Knowledge of the Instructional Strategies and Representations, 3) Knowledge of the Assessment. This study was conducted in the context of the teaching graphs about solubility, and change of states topics of eight prospective chemistry teachers who were attending to chemistry teacher training program of Faculty of Education.  The study was designed as a case study and data were collected by means of lesson plans and it was performed with 8 prospective chemistry teachers. Five prospective teachers were asked to prepare a lesson plan concerning solubility topic and others prepared a lesson plan concerning the change of states topic.

Keywords

• Pedagogic content knowledge
• graphs
• solutions
• solubility
• and change of states

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