Assessing Early Grade Pre-service teachers` attitude and knowledge in teaching Integrated Science in Entrepreneurship Training Institute, Ghana

B.O.K. Essah¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.10 , pp.8-13, Oct-2020

Online published on Oct 31, 2020

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Abstract :
The research sought to assess Early Grade Pre-service teachers` attitude and knowledge in teaching Science in Ghana. The study adopted a cross-sectional design. The Early Grade Pre-service teachers’ estimated population were 80. A simple random sampling technique and a sample size of 60 were used to collect data for analysis. The data collection instrument used was a questionnaire survey. Descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequencies were used to analyse demographic characteristics such as sex, age and academic qualification of respondents. Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequencies and percentages were used in assessing Early Grade Pre-service teachers` attitude and knowledge in teaching Science in Ghana. This study discovered that a greater portion of the respondents indicated an average present level of attitude and knowledge in teaching Integrated Science. Some teachers stated wrongly that Photosynthesis is topic under Physics aspect of integrated Science. This is an indication that teachers did not have knowledge about photosynthesis .The study revealed that majority of the Pre-service teachers used integrated science textbooks as their main source of information for teaching and learning of integrated science. With regards to the results of this study and other studies, the researcher recommended that Tertiary Institutions that offer of Early Grade Education programmes in developing countries should set appropriate policies to support the teaching and learning of integrated science among Early Grade Pre-service teachers.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Pre-service, teachers’, Early Grade, attitude, Photosynthesis

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