They showed a need for deep understanding of scientific content knowledge when implementing the designed curriculum, as is illustrated in the following quotation: If the teacher does not have enough knowledge and information on scientific content, she cannot guide students to solve problems.
With respect to the category of teacher challenges, the themes were: a) the influences of habits and traditional teaching and learning methods, b) the need for deep understanding of scientific content knowledge, and c) the difficulty of teaching and learning argumentations.
In terms of the challenges for the teachers, three major challenges were mentioned: a) the influences of habits and traditional teaching methods, b) the need for deep understanding of scientific content knowledge, and c) the difficulty of teaching and learning argumentations for Vietnamese primary teachers and students.
The challenges that the Vietnamese CHC teachers need deep understanding of scientific content knowledge and that the Vietnamese teachers find teaching and learning scientific argumentation difficult align with concerns of researchers and educators about the state of science teaching in many primary classrooms recently.
We expected that repeated exposure to phylogenetic concepts through increasingly difficult practice within an upper-level plant biology course would be effective for developing retention of knowledge, deep understanding of problems, and transfer of skills (Ericsson et al., 1993; NRC, 2000; Billing, 2007; Larsen et al., 2009; Chi and VanLehn, 2012).
A career in genetic counseling requires a deep understanding of genetics, extensive medical knowledge and clinical experience, and excellent communication and counseling skills.
To get a deeper understanding of staff knowledge and the processes of knowledge translation prior to the planned intervention, focus group discussions were conducted with primary health care staff from some of the districts included in the survey.
The common problems in implementing student portfolio assessment were (a) a lack of knowledge and deep understanding of teachers in implementing student portfolio assessment, (b) a poor attention and cooperation of students in creating the portfolios, and (c) a lack of materials and budgets to support teachers in implementing student portfolio assessment.
There are important advantages to gaining a deep understanding of public policy along with knowledge of a specific discipline.
In short, we must cultivate an epistemic humility, a deep understanding of the limits of our knowledge.
