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Amadeus J. Pickal, Christof Wecker, Birgit J. Neuhaus, Raimund Girwidz

• Since the ability to teach and therefore also diagnose not only subject-specific but also cross-domain skills are an important part of every teacher’s day-to-day work, we developed simulations to quantify and furthermore support the competence to diagnose secondary school students’ scientific reasoning skills. For this purpose, the simulations also include the possibility to rehearse interdisciplinary collaborations between physics and biology pre-service teachers. The simulations are video-based, containing short, scripted videos showing two students working on different inquiry tasks, including a physics and a biology experiment. Participants have to observe the students and can individually decide which pre-formulated questions they want to ask the students before, during and after the experiments to gather relevant information. The corresponding simulated answers are subsequently presented via additional videos. The information gained during the simulations is supposed to be usedSince the ability to teach and therefore also diagnose not only subject-specific but also cross-domain skills are an important part of every teacher’s day-to-day work, we developed simulations to quantify and furthermore support the competence to diagnose secondary school students’ scientific reasoning skills. For this purpose, the simulations also include the possibility to rehearse interdisciplinary collaborations between physics and biology pre-service teachers. The simulations are video-based, containing short, scripted videos showing two students working on different inquiry tasks, including a physics and a biology experiment. Participants have to observe the students and can individually decide which pre-formulated questions they want to ask the students before, during and after the experiments to gather relevant information. The corresponding simulated answers are subsequently presented via additional videos. The information gained during the simulations is supposed to be used to diagnose the students’ scientific reasoning skills later in the process.…