Data collection included semi-struc

Data collection included semi-structured interviewing with prospective chemistry teachers for roughly 45
minutes each to explore their experiences of teaching practice. A sample question from the interview is as follows:
“What kinds of problems did you encounter during your teaching practice?” The interviews were tape-recorded,
transcribed, and analyzed based on Creswell’s (1994) six generic steps: i) organizing and preparing the data for
analysis, ii) reading through all the data, iii) coding the data, iv) generating themes or categories using the coding, v)
organization and the description of the data in terms of the coding and themes, and vi) making an interpretation or
meaning of the data.