TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kulgemeyer, Christoph
A1  - Borowski, Andreas
A1  - Buschhüter, David
A1  - Enkrott, Patrick
A1  - Kempin, Maren
A1  - Reinhold, Peter
A1  - Riese, Josef
A1  - Schecker, Horst
A1  - Schröder, Jan
A1  - Vogelsang, Christoph
T1  - Professional knowledge affects action-related skills
BT  - the development of preservice physics teachers' explaining skills during a field experience
JF  - Journal of research in science teaching : the official journal of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching
N2  - Professional knowledge is an important source of science teachers' actions in the classroom (e.g., personal professional content knowledge [pedagogical content knowledge, PCK] is the source of enacted PCK in the refined consensus model [RCM] for PCK). However, the evidence for this claim is ambiguous at best. This study applied a cross-lagged panel design to examine the relationship between professional knowledge and actions in one particular instructional situation: explaining physics. Pre- and post a field experience (one semester), 47 preservice physics teachers from four different universities were tested for their content knowledge (CK), PCK, pedagogical knowledge (PK), and action-related skills in explaining physics. The study showed that joint professional knowledge (the weighted sum of CK, PCK, and PK scores) at the beginning of the field experience impacted the development of explaining skills during the field experience (beta = .38**). We interpret this as a particular relationship between professional knowledge and science teachers' action-related skills (enacted PCK): professional knowledge is necessary for the development of explaining skills. That is evidence that personal PCK affects enacted PCK. In addition, field experiences are often supposed to bridge the theory-practice gap by transforming professional knowledge into instructional practice. Our results suggest that for field experiences to be effective, preservice teachers should start with profound professional knowledge.
KW  - enacted PCK
KW  - field experience
KW  - instructional explanation
KW  - instructional
KW  - quality
KW  - practicum
KW  - professional knowledge
KW  - school internship
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21632
SN  - 0022-4308
SN  - 1098-2736
VL  - 57
IS  - 10
SP  - 1554
EP  - 1582
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -