The results of the study showed that (a)
Model - It, through its scaffolds (i.e., Plan, Build, and Test modes), enabled the majority of preservice teachers to build
models that were structurally correct, (b) participants»
models were structurally correct but simplistic, and (c) 65 % of the participants preferred to teach science using the explorative
modeling method, 27 % the
expressive method, and only 8 % both the explorative and the
expressive methods.