In order to address this gap, this qualitative study aims to explore students' overall perceptions about various game elements in a gamified instructional technology and material development course within a teacher education context.
Based on a theoretical framework that integrates Mezirow's transformative learning model and Bakhtin's dialogism, this paper builds on previous literature on teacher-to-teacher discussions as well as providing a fresh perspective to inform the current globalized teacher education context.
But behind the scenes, we made decisions to help us meet the policy-driven demand for evidence within the teacher training context.
"I was so taken by Doug," Ms. Darboven said, but "mainly it was just in a teacher-pupil context learning about ecosystems".
In phase 3 research, the relationship among the facilitator, PD program, teachers, and context is studied (Borko, 2004).
Gorham and Millette (1997) also conducted a study with the same purpose and have found three categories including teachers' behaviours, context, and format/ structure.
Learners and teachers create context in an ad-hoc way (for example, via a wiki), which requires their participation to work effectively.
Further investigation examining outcome variation associated with teacher experience and context would be valuable.
In this context, teacher Sara asks more 'why' Questions encouraging thinking.
Prawat (1989a), whose work was a resource for the TIMSS conceptual framework underlying the teacher and classroom context surveys, connects conceptual knowledge development with teacher practices that attend to students' explanations and problem-solving strategies.
