@article {222,
	title = {IMPACT ON STUDENT CHANGE IN SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY AND SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC REASONING SKILLS FROM TEACHER COLLABORATION AND GAINS FROM PROFESSIONAL IN-SERVICE},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2011},
	month = {June/2011},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {127-137 },
	abstract = {This study examines the impact on 9th grade students{\textquoteright} change in socio-scientific reasoning and scientific creativity skills as a result of their science teachers{\textquoteright} professional change, as a result of participating in longitudinal in-service courses. Eight chemistry and four biology teachers participated in two consecutive intervention studies, each running for 8 months, both designed to guide teachers on promoting the level of scientific literacy in their students. During the in-service courses, the teachers created teaching materials for 4 integrative teaching modules and taught their students using a designed STL teaching approach. The students{\textquoteright} development was determined in terms of scientific creativity and socio-scientific reasoning skills, as indicators of scientific literacy gains, with an initial pre-test in the fall of the school year and a post-test in the spring after the STL intervention. The results of the study revealed that the degree of teachers{\textquoteright} professional level in promoting problem solving and decision making teaching and its impact on student gains, as well as the number of teachers collaborating together in the teaching within a school, had a significant impact on their students{\textquoteright} improvement in skills associated with socio-scientific reasoning and scientific creativity.},
	keywords = {in-service courses, role of science teachers{\textquoteright} professional change, scientific creativity, STL teaching},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/987-1410008629.pdf},
	author = {Anne Laius and Miia Rannikm{\"a}e}
}
