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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 167 ( 2015 ) 190 – 197
IOSTE BORNEO 2014
Big Ideas in Science Education in Teacher Training Program
Ann Mutveia,*, Jan-Eric Mattssonb
a, b Södertörn University, SE 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
Abstract
New curricula from primary school to higher education include performance assessments of achieved skills. The study
investigates if it is possible to respond to this by focusing on some core ideas regarding content and design of learning situations.
It was made on pre-service primary school teacher students in science and technology. It shows how the achievement of useable
knowledge is enhanced by close relations between teachers and students bination with open and visible processes of the
learning.
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Keywords: science learning; teacher learning; student learning; big ideas; core concepts; qualitative assessment
1. General introduction
In Sweden, new curricula on all levels pulsory school (Skolverket 2010, Swedish National Agency for
Education) to high