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Background:There is widespread agreement that science learning always builds upon students’ existing ideas and that science teachers should possess knowledge of learners.Materials and methods:This study aims at investigating pre-service science teachers’ knowledge of student misconceptions and difficulties, a crucial component of PCK, on Newton’s Third Law. A questionnaire was designed and conducted to 143 pre-service science teachers enrolled in a normal university in China. A comparison between participants’ predictions and student actual outcomes was detected.Results:The result revealed a tendency for pre-service science teachers to under-predict the problem-solving ability of senior high school students. Furthermore, most pre-service science teachers neglected two common learning difficulties in Newton’s Third Law.Conclusions:It seems that there is a need to help pre-service science teachers be aware of their own misunderstandings about students.

Pre-Service Science Teachers’ PCK: Inconsistency of Pre-Service Teachers’ Predictions and Student Learning Difficulties in Newton’s Third Law