Table 1-11 | |||||
Mathematics and science teachers spending time in subject-focused professional development in the past 3 years, by grade level: 2012 | |||||
(Percent distribution) | |||||
Grade level |
< 6 hours |
6–15 hours |
16–35 hours |
> 35 hours |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematics teachers | |||||
Elementary | 35 | 35 | 20 | 11 | |
Middle | 22 | 24 | 23 | 31 | |
High | 23 | 24 | 22 | 32 | |
Science teachers | |||||
Elementary | 65 | 22 | 8 | 4 | |
Middle | 30 | 24 | 20 | 27 | |
High | 23 | 20 | 21 | 36 | |
NOTE: Detail may not sum to total due to rounding. SOURCE: Banilower ER, Smith PS, Weiss IR, Malzahn KA, Campbell KM, Weis AM, Report of the 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education (2013). Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 |