{"id":188,"date":"2025-06-05T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:48:42","slug":"project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/?page_id=188&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Generative Artificial Intelligence for Science Teacher Education enhancement: Framework Development<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOI <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/2023.13203.PEX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/2023.13203.PEX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reference <\/strong>2023.13203.PEX<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project Start Date<\/strong> 2025-02-01<strong> | Project End Date<\/strong> 2026-07-31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Margarida Morais Marques <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4325-9122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">0000-0002-4325-9122<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Knowledge Fields:<\/strong> Social sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funding Program: <\/strong>Concurso de Projetos Explorat\u00f3rios em Todos os Dom\u00ednios Cient\u00edficos 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is widely disseminated in society. In science, GAI accelerates productivity by supporting idea and hypothesis generation, data analysis, experiment design, and research paper\u00a0writing, despite concerns about the accuracy of information\u00a0and issues of authorship and ownership. In education, it presents opportunities, such as personalised learning and reducing teacher workload, and challenges, such as balancing the\u00a0benefits of GAI with students\u2019 independent problem-solving skills or\u00a0the risk of strengthening the\u00a0digital divide. Thus, educational stakeholders need to evaluate\u00a0GAI\u2019s capabilities, without overlooking its possible risks and undesirable impacts on education and society. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a mature theoretical framework on\u00a0teacher knowledge for intelligent and intentional technology integration in teaching. It was recently revised to empower teachers to integrate GAI. This technology\u00a0induces a philosophical shift in\u00a0TPACK\u00a0nature, from viewing it as a tool to recognizing it as a non-human unreliable collaborator. Moreover, as GAI\u00a0transforms\u00a0society, Contextual Knowledge (XK) is expanded in scope, from immediate school systems to the broader educational system and society, also considering its long-term effects. Yet, this framework is focused on WHAT teachers must know to leverage GAI effectively and not on HOW that can be done, particularly in science education. Other frameworks can be explored to understand GAI\u00a0integration in educational contexts, such as Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) or Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition (SAMR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The literature highlights a gap in GAI exploration within science teacher&nbsp;initial education, despite teachers\u2019 increasing need to become knowledgeable in this technology. The scarcity of GAI-learning opportunities in teacher&nbsp;initial education makes the development of GAI-supported education a priority. Thus, the GAI-SciTeach project&#8217;s main aim is to foster conditions so that GAI empowers and not overpowers educators and learners, through the development of a pedagogical framework tailored for the effective integration of GAI in science teacher initial education. The project is guided by the research question :&nbsp;How can teacher initial education integrate GAI technology&nbsp;towards practice&nbsp;innovation for student learning enhancement, tailored to the specific context and goals of science education? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under a pragmatic paradigm, mixed methods \u00a0are used to conduct the first cycle of design-based research \u00a0to achieve a practical solution and a theoretical contribution regarding a pedagogical intervention toward the integration of GAI in science teacher education programs. The framework is literature-funded \u00a0and takes 2023 TPACK as a starting point. It is negotiated among several stakeholders from different backgrounds: science education (e.g. future teachers and teacher educators), artificial intelligence (computer science researchers), and educational technology, to guarantee it is tailored to the specificities of science teacher education. Under the first design cycle, the framework is piloted, with data collection through observation, interviews with pilot participants, and document analysis of future teachers&#8217; work under the piloted teacher education intervention leveraging GAI technology. This provides empirical evidence of the effectiveness of the framework and signals elements for future improvement, supporting the construction of a robust reference framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GAI-SciTeach embraces research and training, and its feasibility is supported by a multidisciplinary team from three research units with know-how in science education, science teacher education, educational technology, and artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project foresees two main results: 1) pedagogic framework \u2013 a literature-based pedagogical framework tailored for the effective and ethical integration of GAI into science teacher initial education with guidelines for stakeholders on the procedural dimension (HOW), taking into account contextual factors; and 2) technology-enhanced intervention &nbsp;\u2013 a science teacher initial education intervention integrating GAI towards practices innovation for student learning enhancement. GAI-SciTeach novelty lies in its comprehensive, stakeholder-driven approach to developing a practical and ethical framework towards the integration of GAI into science teacher initial education, thus promoting innovation in science education practices and supporting student performance enhancement. By focusing the framework on procedural knowledge, engaging diverse stakeholders, employing a design-based research approach, addressing a significant gap in the field, and emphasizing ethical considerations, the project sets a new standard for the integration of emergent educational technologies into teacher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Institution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Universidade de Aveiro (UA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-1\"><strong>Funder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Country<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Start Date<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>End Date<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia (FCT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025-01-01<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025-12-31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49.990,53 \u20ac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative Artificial Intelligence for Science Teacher Education enhancement: Framework Development DOI https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/2023.13203.PEX Reference 2023.13203.PEX Project Start Date 2025-02-01 | Project End Date 2026-07-31 Principal Investigator: Margarida Morais Marques 0000-0002-4325-9122 Knowledge Fields: Social sciences Funding Program: Concurso de Projetos Explorat\u00f3rios em Todos os Dom\u00ednios Cient\u00edficos 2023 Abstract Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is widely disseminated in society.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/?page_id=188&#038;lang=en\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gai-sciteach.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}