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Dionne I. Cross 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(5):325-346
This collective case study reports on an investigation into the relationship between mathematics teachers’ beliefs and their
classroom practices, namely, how they organized their classroom activities, interacted with their students, and assessed their
students’ learning. Additionally, the study examined the pervasiveness of their beliefs in the face of efforts to incorporate
reform-oriented classroom materials and instructional strategies. The participants were five high school teachers of ninth-grade
algebra at different stages in their teaching career. The qualitative analysis of the data revealed that in general beliefs
were very influential on the teachers’ daily pedagogical decisions and that their beliefs about the nature of mathematics
served as a primary source of their beliefs about pedagogy and student learning. Findings from the analysis concur with previous
studies in this area that reveal a clear relationship between these constructs. In addition, the results provide useful insights
for the mathematics education community as it shows the diversity among the inservice teachers’ beliefs (presented as hypothesized
belief models), the role and influence of beliefs about the nature of mathematics on the belief structure and how the teachers
designed their instructional practices to reflect these beliefs. The article concludes with a discussion of implications of
teacher education. 相似文献
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Jesse L. M. Wilkins 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(2):139-164
This study investigated 481 in-service elementary teachers’ level of mathematical content knowledge, attitudes toward mathematics,
beliefs about the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction, use of inquiry-based instruction and modeled the relationship
among these variables. Upper elementary teachers (grades 3–5) were found to have greater content knowledge and more positive
attitudes toward mathematics than primary teachers (grades K-2). There was no difference in teachers’ beliefs about effective
instruction, but primary level teachers were found to use inquiry-based instruction more frequently than upper elementary
teachers. Consistent with Ernest’s [Ernest (1989). The knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of the mathematics teacher: A model.
Journal of Education for Teaching, 15(1), 13–33] model of mathematics teaching, content knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs were all found to be related to teachers’
instructional practice. Furthermore, beliefs were found to partially mediate the effects of content knowledge and attitudes
on instructional practice. Content knowledge was found to be negatively related to beliefs in the effectiveness of inquiry-based
instruction and teachers’ use of inquiry-based instruction in their classrooms. However, overall, teachers with more positive
attitudes toward mathematics were more likely to believe in the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction and use it more
frequently in their classroom. Teacher beliefs were found to have the strongest effect on teachers’ practice. Implications
for the goals and objectives of elementary mathematics methods courses and professional development are discussed.
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Colleen Vale Alasdair McAndrew Siva Krishnan 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2011,14(3):193-212
A professional learning program for teachers of junior secondary mathematics regarding the content and pedagogy of senior
secondary mathematics is the context for this study of teachers’ mathematical and pedagogical knowledge. The analysis of teachers’
reflections on their learning explored teachers’ understanding of mathematical connections and their appreciation of mathematical
structure. The findings indicate that a professional learning program about senior secondary mathematics can enable practicing
teachers to deepen and broaden their knowledge for teaching junior secondary mathematics and develop their practice to support
their students’ present and future learning of mathematics. Further research is needed about professional learning approaches
and tasks that may enable teachers to imbed and develop awareness of structure in their practice. 相似文献
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Sebastian Kuntze 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):273-292
Although teachers’ professional knowledge and instructional beliefs are known to have a variety of subcomponents, research
on the structure and interrelations of these subcomponents is relatively scarce. This article presents some findings of a
preliminary, quantitative empirical study examining the relationships between mathematics teachers’ views concerning specific
classroom situations, their content domain-specific pedagogical content beliefs and their more global instruction-related
beliefs. The findings suggest that global beliefs—in terms of cognitive constructivist or direct transmission views of teaching
and learning, on the one hand, and beliefs about the stability of individual mathematical abilities, on the other—can impact
teachers’ content domain-specific beliefs and their views related to videotaped classroom situations from introductory lessons
on geometrical proof. 相似文献
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Ravit Golan Duncan Vicky Pilitsis Melissa Piegaro 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(1):81-102
Current standards emphasize student engagement with inquiry practices. However, implementing inquiry instruction is a formidable
challenge for teachers as they often lack models for using and adapting inquiry-based instructional materials. Teacher education
programs can provide scaffolded contexts for developing teachers’ ability to critique, adapt, and design inquiry-based materials.
We describe a qualitative study of 17 preservice teachers enrolled in two consecutive science methods courses. The study characterizes
the development of preservice teachers’ ability to critique and revise instructional materials. Our findings suggest that
teachers improved in their ability to critique lesson plans and to suggest revisions that would make them more inquiry oriented.
In particular, the teachers’ critiques and revisions increased in sophistication after engaging in instructional design activities
during the second methods course. 相似文献
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Culturally responsive science teaching is using knowledge about the culture and life experiences of students to structure
learning that is conducive to their needs. Understanding what teachers need to prepare them to be culturally responsive is
a matter of continuous debate. As the focus of multicultural education ventures farther away from its roots, advocating the
civil rights of historically oppressed groups, concerns about the gravity of racial inequity on schooling continues. How will
this shift in focus influence teachers’ capacity to accommodate students’ needs resulting from racial inequities in this society,
particularly African American students? What knowledge is essential to their effectiveness? This qualitative study examined
the instructional practices of two effective middle school science teachers deemed culturally responsive by their administrator
on the basis of classroom observations, students’ responses and standardized assessment results. Both teachers’ classrooms
consisted primarily of African American students. Grounded theory was used to analyze the teachers’ beliefs and practices
in order to identify existing commonalties. Critical race theory was used to identify whether there was any influence of the
students’ racial identities on the teachers’ beliefs and practices. The analysis reveals that the teachers’ beliefs and practices
were informed by their critical awareness of social constraints imposed upon their African American students’ identities.
These findings communicate the significance of sociocultural awareness to informing the teachers’ instruction, as well as
their strategies for managing the varying dynamics occurring in their classrooms. It can be deduced from the findings that
an understanding of racial inequities is crucial to the development of sociocultural awareness, and is the foundation for
the culturally responsive dispositions and practices of these middle school science teachers. 相似文献
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In this paper, we describe a one-day professional development activity for mathematics teachers that promoted the use of comparison
as an instructional tool to develop students’ flexibility in algebra. Effective use of comparison in mathematics instruction
involves using side-by-side presentation of problems and solution methods and subsequent student discussion of these multiple
solution methods to highlight the similarities and differences among problem-solving techniques. The goals of the professional
development activity were to make teachers aware of how to use comparison effectively in their instruction, as well as to
impact teachers’ own flexibility in algebra by using comparison instructionally during the professional development. Our analysis
of teachers’ experiences in the professional development activity suggests that when teachers were presented with techniques
for effective use of comparison, their own understanding of multiple solution methods was reinforced. In addition, teachers
began to question why they relied exclusively on one familiar method over others that are equally effective and perhaps more
efficient and started to draw new connections between problem-solving methods. Finally, as a result of experiencing instructional
use of comparison, teachers began to see value in teaching for flexibility and reported changing their own teaching practices. 相似文献
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Feral Ogan-Bekiroglu Hatice Akkoç 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(6):1173-1199
The purposes of this study were to determine preservice physics teachers’ instructional beliefs and to investigate the relationship
between their beliefs and practices. The theoretical framework was based on the combination Haney & McArthur’s (Science Education, 86(6):783–802, 2002) research and Ford’s (1992) motivation systems theory. A multicase study design was utilized for the research in order to focus on a belief–practice
relationship within several examples. Semistructured interviews, observations, and preservice teachers’ written documents
were used to collect data. Results showed that most preservice teachers held instructional beliefs aligned with constructivist
philosophy. Some of the preservice teachers’ beliefs were consistent with their practices while some of them presented different
practices from their beliefs in different placements. 相似文献
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Jon D. Davis 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(5):365-389
This study examines the influence of reading and planning from two differently organized mathematics textbooks on prospective
high school mathematics teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge of exponential functions. The teachers
completed a pretest and two posttests. On the pretest, the teachers possessed an incomplete understanding of content and pedagogical
content knowledge related to exponential functions. The teachers’ understanding of how to translate from table to closed-form
and recursive equations grew as a result of their use of the Mathematics: Modeling Our World textbook, while the Discovering Algebra textbook appeared to be more beneficial in terms of pedagogical content knowledge. Teachers read from the student lessons
in both textbooks, but read differently from the sections of both textbooks intended for the teacher. They focused more on
the purpose of the Mathematics: Modeling Our World lesson and more on the places where students might experience difficulties in the margins of the Discovering Algebra lesson. The teachers’ learning was influenced by their own personal characteristics (e.g., previous textbook experiences)
as well as textbook qualities (e.g., organization). 相似文献
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Zahra Gooya 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2007,65(3):331-347
The geometry textbooks of the new system of secondary education in Iran differed dramatically from the old ones considering
the aims, the visions, the content, the approach, and the educational purposes. Four hundred eighty mathematics teachers participated
in a nationwide professional development program conducted by the author to facilitate the implementation of the new changes.
Based on this program, a research study was designed to investigate the teachers’ beliefs about a new reform in high school
geometry as a result of the professional development program. The data of the study were collected through teachers’ reflective
writings, project works, group discussions, reflective questionnaires, and oral communications. The purpose of this paper
is to draw upon this study and to document mathematics teachers’ beliefs about new changes. 相似文献
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The objective of this study was to examine the beliefs of Jordanian kindergarten teachers toward developmentally appropriate
practices (DAP). The sample consists of 285 (14.9%) randomly selected teachers working in public and private kindergartens.
A questionnaire with two parts, (1) general information and (2) teachers’ beliefs regarding DAP, was developed to answer the
research questions. The items were distributed into the five dimensions of early childhood professional practice that were
published by the National Association for the education of young children (NAEYC). The findings indicated that the overall
mean score of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs on the five dimensions was 4.08, indicating high beliefs toward (DAP). Teachers
endorsed DAP on all dimensions except establishing reciprocal relationships with families. The findings also indicated that
there are no significant differences between the means of teachers’ beliefs toward teaching children according to teachers’
level of education, years of experience, or teacher’s age (except in the caring community of learners and the development
and learning domains). In the light of the findings of this study, some recommendations are presented. 相似文献
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Philip M. Keys 《Journal of Educational Change》2007,8(1):41-60
This study describes a theoretical knowledge filter model that explains how teacher knowledge (beliefs and practices) shaped
the implementation of a science curriculum in Australia. Over four school terms, four elementary and three secondary teachers
participated in the study. Through the methodology of educational criticism (Eisner, 1991, The enlightened eye. New York: Macmillan) the results revealed that, in relation to their teaching, the teachers possessed three sets of beliefs:
teachers’ expressed beliefs, teachers’ entrenched beliefs and teachers’ manifested beliefs. The outcome of this study is a
model for identifying and observing the impact of teachers’ beliefs that can be utilised in facilitating change in education
and in influencing communities of practice. 相似文献
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Keith R. Leatham 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2006,9(1):91-102
This article discusses theoretical assumptions either explicitly stated or implied in research on teachers’ beliefs. Such
research often assumes teachers can easily articulate their beliefs and that there is a one-to-one correspondence between
what teachers state and what researchers think those statements mean. Research conducted under this paradigm often reports
inconsistencies between teachers’ beliefs and their actions. This article describes an alternative framework for conceptualizing
teachers’ beliefs that views teachers as inherently sensible rather than inconsistent beings. Instead of viewing teachers’
beliefs as inconsistent, teachers’ abilities to articulate their beliefs as well as researchers’ interpretations of those
beliefs are seen as problematic. Implications of such a view for research on teacher beliefs as well as for the practice of
mathematics teacher education are discussed.
This article is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Georgia under the direction of
Thomas J. Cooney. Parts of this article were presented at the 2004 meeting of the North American Chapter of the International
Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Toronto, Canada). 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to better understand teacher tensions in professional development. The population under study
was practicing mathematics teachers engaged in a week-long professional development institute. Data sources included observations,
interviews, and teacher products (such as registration forms, surveys, journals, and notebooks). The data were analyzed to
determine what tensions were evident in the institute and how those tensions arose. In this paper, we examine participants’
tensions in a professional development situation when their expectations did not match reality. We have done so by presenting
a theoretical model of professional development based on an instructional rhombus that illuminates the actual and applicatory
aspects of teachers’ professional development experiences. The main tensions expressed by the teachers were related to the
content and pedagogy of the institute. This study points toward the importance of teachers’ expectations in professional development. 相似文献
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As mathematics educators think about teaching that promotes students’ opportunities to learn, attention must be given to the
conceptualization of the professional development of teachers and those who teach teachers. In this article, we generalize
and expand the instructional triangle to consider different interactions in a variety of teacher development contexts. We
have done so by addressing issues of language for models of teachers’ professional development at different levels and by
providing examples of situations in which these models can be applied. Through the expansion of our understanding and use
of the instructional triangle we can further develop the concept of mathematics teacher development. 相似文献
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Jacqueline Leonard Joy Barnes-Johnson Scott Jackson Dantley Charles Kimber 《The Urban Review》2011,43(1):124-150
This paper reports on a study of elementary preservice teachers’ inquiry-based practices, their efficacy beliefs, and the
role beliefs had on two preservice teachers’ practices in urban classrooms. Results show inquiry-based practices can be cultivated
through field-based experiences and preservice teachers’ efficacy beliefs, as it relates to practice in urban settings, are
malleable. Specifically, personal efficacy beliefs about teaching science improved or were sustained for one cohort of preservice
teachers. However, beliefs about students’ ability to learn science, that is outcome beliefs, were less stable. The results
of two case studies show that science content knowledge was a factor in preservice teachers’ inquiry-based practices. However,
why preservice teachers’ beliefs about student learning declined is less clear. More research is needed, along with follow-up
data on teacher induction, to learn how preservice teachers’ beliefs impact urban students’ science education. 相似文献
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Andrea R. Milner Toni A. Sondergeld Abdulkadir Demir Carla C. Johnson Charlene M. Czerniak 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2012,23(2):111-132
The impact of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandated state science assessment on elementary teachers’ beliefs about teaching
science and their classroom practice is relatively unknown. For many years, the teaching of science has been minimized in
elementary schools in favor of more emphasis on reading and mathematics. This study examines the dynamics of bringing science
to the forefront of assessment in elementary schools and the resulting teacher belief and instructional shifts that take place
in response to NCLB. Results indicated that teachers’ beliefs about teaching science remained unchanged despite policy changes
mandated in NCLB. Teacher beliefs related to their perceptions of what their administrators and peer groups’ think they should
be doing influenced their practice the most. Most teachers reported positive feelings and attitudes about science and reported
that their students had positive feelings and attitudes about science; however, teachers reported teaching science less as
a result of NCLB. Implications for elementary science education reform and policy are discussed. 相似文献