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A questionnaire measuring nine different aspects of teachers’ beliefs and intentions concerning teaching in higher education
was distributed to teachers at four institutions in the United Kingdom, yielding 638 complete sets of responses. There was
a high degree of overlap between the participants’ scores on the subscales measuring beliefs and intentions, and analyses
of both sets of scores yielded two factors reflecting an orientation towards learning facilitation and an orientation towards
knowledge transmission. However, teachers’ intentions were more orientated towards knowledge transmission than were their
beliefs, and problem solving was associated with beliefs based on learning facilitation but with intentions based on knowledge
transmission. Differences in teachers’ intentions across different disciplines and between men and women seemed to result
from different conceptions of teaching, whereas differences in teachers’ intentions across different institutions and between
teachers with different levels of teaching experience seemed to result from contextual factors. Teaching intentions thus reflect
a compromise between teachers’ conceptions of teaching and their academic and social contexts 相似文献
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中国城市和农村小学教师对融合教育态度的比较研究 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
邓猛 《Frontiers of Education in China》2008,3(4):473-492
This study investigated the attitudes of primary school teachers from the selected rural and urban areas in China toward inclusive
education. The results indicated that, (1) teachers’ attitudes are composed of three dimensions: positive and negative effects
of inclusion, and benefits of segregated special education; (2) most surveyed teachers demonstrated positive attitudes toward
segregated special school education while supporting inclusion; (3) rural and urban teachers held significantly different
attitudes toward inclusion, and urban teachers were more negative toward inclusion than rural ones; and (4) teachers’ attitudes
were not essentially influenced by resources, teaching years or relevant special education training.
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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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Alphonse Uworwabayeho 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(5):315-324
This article presents practical perspectives on mathematics teacher change through results of collaborative research with
two mathematics secondary school teachers in order to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics in Rwanda. The 2006
national mathematics curriculum reform stresses pedagogies that enhance problem-solving, critical thinking and argumentation.
Teachers need to use new teaching strategies. This article is a case study looking at issues around developing teachers’ use
of interactions in mathematics classrooms independently of the national programme. Outputs of the study include teachers’
awareness of the need for change and their increased flexibility to accept learners’ autonomy in shifting from teacher-centred
to learner-centred pedagogy. Geometer’s Sketchpad challenged teachers’ practice and then provoked reflection to improve student
learning. 相似文献
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Practicing teachers in high-SES and low-SES communities completed a survey that assesses the strength of teachers’ support
for professional development (PD), with the goal of determining the extent to which PD initiatives in low-SES communities
face obstacles not evident in more affluent areas (N = 150). A multiple regression analysis was conducted on the factor scores produced by the survey, Teachers’ Attitudes about Professional Development (TAP). Support for PD was higher in high-SES communities than low-SES ones, and higher among elementary teachers than secondary
teachers in both communities. To the extent that teachers’ attitudes about PD influence the effectiveness of PD initiatives,
these attitudes present difficulties in low-SES communities beyond those evident in high-SES areas. Needed are professional-development
models, and research that tests them, to determine how best to overcome obstacles that teachers’ attitudes likely cause in
PD initiatives in low-SES communities. 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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As a compulsory course at universities throughout the Chinese Mainland, ideo-political education aims to safeguard university
students’ political loyalty to the Communist Party. By employing a qualitative research method, this study investigated a
renowned comprehensive university in southern China. The case study found that students expressed strong resistance to compulsory
ideo-political courses. From the outset, teachers had to work to change students’ overwhelmingly negative perceptions of ideo-political
education. Informants found that they could not attract student interest if they only strictly followed the state designed
textbook, and therefore chose instead to cover topics they found more interesting and to discuss social issues in their lectures.
However, the new curriculum reform and teaching quality assurance mechanism placed further restrictions on teaching and learning.
Whether teachers could maintain enough autonomy to make the above adjustments depended on the understanding and support of
key senior academics. 相似文献
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Esther T. Canrinus Michelle Helms-Lorenz Douwe Beijaard Jaap Buitink Adriaan Hofman 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2012,27(1):115-132
This study investigates how relevant indicators of teachers’ sense of their professional identity (job satisfaction, occupational
commitment, self-efficacy and change in level of motivation) are related. A model is proposed, tested with structural equation
modelling (SEM) and refined using data from 1,214 Dutch teachers working in secondary education. Classroom self-efficacy and
relationship satisfaction play a key influencing role in the relationships between the indicators. Using multiple-group SEM,
the parameters of the overall model are similar for the novice, experienced and senior teachers in a constrained model. This
aspect of similarity across experience groups is in line with findings of previous research on teachers’ professional identity.
The present study contributes to the further development of a solid theory on teachers’ professional identity, which has been
lacking. 相似文献
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Manhong Lai 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2010,6(2):613-631
In 2003, a curriculum reform of education was initiated in mainland China to improve the quality of senior secondary education.
The major purpose of this reform was to move from a teacher-centred to a student-centred approach in teaching. In order to
find out how teachers coped with the challenges of the reform and how their work was affected, an in-depth study was conducted
at a senior secondary school in City B, Guangdong, using qualitative research. While the curriculum reform was found to offer
teachers an opportunity for re-professionalisation, teacher development in the sample school was revealed as having changed
towards an assigned professionalism. In addition, teaching research officers limited themselves to instruction on practical
teaching techniques. Furthermore, the existence of teacher leadership on a subject panel was heavily dependent on the panel
head’s leadership style. On the whole, the tendency was for teachers to be explicitly instructed to partake in contrived collegiality
and imposed reflection. 相似文献
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Charalambos Y. Charalambous Areti Panaoura George Philippou 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2009,71(2):161-180
Scholars and teacher educators alike agree that teachers’ beliefs and attitudes toward mathematics are key informants of teachers’
instructional approaches. Therefore, it has become clear that, in addition to enriching preservice teachers’ (PSTs) knowledge,
teacher education programs should also create opportunities for prospective teachers to develop productive beliefs and attitudes
toward teaching and learning mathematics. This study explored the effectiveness of a mathematics preparatory program based
on the history of mathematics that aimed at enhancing PSTs’ epistemological and efficacy beliefs and their attitudes toward
mathematics. Using data from a questionnaire administered four times, the study traced the development of 94 PSTs’ beliefs
and attitudes over a period of 2 years. The analysis of these data showed changes in certain dimensions of the PSTs’ beliefs
and attitudes; however, other dimensions were found to change in the opposite direction to that expected. Differences were
also found in the development of the PSTs’ beliefs and attitudes according to their mathematical background. The data yielded
from semi-structured follow-up interviews conducted with a convenience sample of PSTs largely corroborated the quantitative
data and helped explain some of these changes. We discuss the effectiveness of the program considered herein and draw implications
for the design of teacher education programs grounded in the history of mathematics.
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Charalambos Y. CharalambousEmail: |
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Dr Tim Hardy Ms Margaret Bearlin Dr Valda Kirkwood 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):142-151
The aim of the Primary and Early Childhood Science and Technology Education Project (PECSTEP) is to improve teaching and learning
in science and technology of by increasing the number of early childhood and primary teachers who are effective educators.
PECSTEP is based on an interactive model of teaching and systematically links work on gender with the learning and teaching
of science and technology. The project involves: a year-long inservice program which includes the development of a science
curriculum unit by teachers in their schools; linking of the preservice and inservice programs; and the development of support
networks for teachers. Each phase of PECSTEP has been researched by means of surveys, interviews and the use of diaries. Research
questions have focussed particularly on changes in: teachers’ and student teachers’ attitudes to teaching science and technology;
their perceptions of science and technology; their perceptions of their students’ responses and their understandings of how
gender relates to these areas.
Specializations: primary science curriculum, science teacher education, sociology of science, technology and education.
Specializations: gender and science/science teacher education, feminist theory, curriculum theory.
Specializations: Science education research, curriculum development. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to assess differences between Nigerian junior and senior preservice teachers’ science teaching
efficacy beliefs. Data in this study were collected from a total number of 221 preservice teachers enrolled in junior and
senior secondary science teacher education programs in Nigeria using Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEB-B)
(Enoch and Riggs in Sci Educ 74:625–638 1990). Results indicated that junior secondary preservice teachers were as efficacious as their senior secondary preservice teachers
on the two dimensions of STEB-B. In addition, analyses did not reveal any significant gender differences on the two dimensions
of STEB-B. 相似文献
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Hezekiah Ukegbu Emereole 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(5):1033-1056
The conceptual knowledge of science processes possessed by University of Botswana science students and senior secondary school
science teachers was sought through a three-part questionnaire. One part requested demographic data of subjects, the second
part asked them to select their level of familiarity with the processes, and the third part probed their conceptual definitions
of the science processes. The definitions were scored as incorrect, partially correct and correct on an ordinal scale. Statistical
analysis was done using Spearman rho correlation and one sample t test. The findings revealed that the science teachers did
not have sufficient conceptual knowledge of science processes to help their students to understand in a meaningful way; both
students’ and teachers’ views of their familiarity of science processes did not corroborate their demonstrated ability to
provide acceptable conceptual definitions of the processes; there was no association between students’ and teachers’ conceptions
of the science processes; and if conceptual knowledge of science processes was demanded, the entering students, who were the
immediate graduates of the senior secondary schools, might not have enough to pursue tertiary level science courses. It is
suggested that both conceptual and operational knowledge of science processes be required at secondary and tertiary levels
of science education. 相似文献
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In this article, we describe the results of a study of chemistry high school teachers’ beliefs (N = 7) of the chemistry curriculum and their roles, their beliefs on the teacher as developer of materials, and their beliefs
about professional development. Teachers’ beliefs influence the implementation of a curriculum. We view the use of a new curriculum
as a learning process, which should start at teachers’ prior knowledge and beliefs. The results reveal that it is possible
to develop a new curriculum in which teachers’ beliefs are taken as a starting point. Promising approaches to prepare teachers
for a new curriculum is to let them (co)develop and use curriculum materials: It creates ownership, and strengthens and develops
teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK).
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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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Task-based learning (TBL) was a methodological innovation in the 1999 English Language syllabus for secondary schools and
the 2006 curriculum for senior secondary schools in Hong Kong, designed to replace teacher-centred, grammar-focused approaches
that were identified as previously prevalent. This two-year longitudinal study analyses the implementation of TBL in three
schools. It focuses on teachers’ conceptions of TBL and classroom practice, and the support provided by senior management.
It finds that TBL is enacted differently by individual teachers, and that the lack of senior leadership is significant in
causing the innovation either to wither or to become diffuse. In some cases, problems associated with implementing TBL were
addressed through the determined commitment of pioneering teachers and the collaborative efforts by staff, but change was
nonetheless hampered. 相似文献
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Timothy Teo 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2010,11(2):253-262
This study examined pre-service teachers’ self-reported behavioral intentions to use technology. Three hundred and fourteen
participants completed a survey questionnaire measuring their responses to six constructs from a research model that extends
the technology acceptance model (TAM) by including facilitating conditions and subjective norm. Structural equation modeling
was used as the main technique for data analysis. This study contributes to the growing interests in using information science
models to explain intention to use technology in educational contexts. The results of this study showed that the TAM constructs
were significant in explaining pre-service teachers’ intention to use technology. Although facilitating conditions and subjective
norm had significant effects on behavioral intention to use technology, they were mediated by attitude toward usage, perceived
usefulness, and perceived ease of use. Overall, this study indicated the TAM has sufficient explanatory powers to explain
pre-service teachers’ intention to use technology in an educational environment. 相似文献
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Shu-Fen Lin Wen-Hua Chang Yeong-Jing Cheng 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(6):1367-1389
The processes of curricula, textbooks and student resources development have been broadly surveyed and studied while teachers’
guides have received comparatively little consideration throughout recent reforms in science education. Ideal curriculum materials
align instruction with the goals of reform. Well-designed teachers’ guides contribute to communicating and supporting reform-based
teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate the functions and assistance that guides provide science teachers.
A questionnaire was developed and administered to science teachers from a stratified sample of elementary and junior high
schools in Taiwan. The findings indicated that the guides were of greater benefit to elementary school science teachers than
they were to junior high teachers. These groups of teachers perceived the guides’ usefulness differently, but they believed
that a clear, concise presentation of the purpose, reminders, answer keys, concept maps of the main topics and learning progression
provided the most helpful and preferred layout. Teachers felt that the function of a teachers’ guide is to provide teaching
resources rather than to guide teacher thinking. This study discusses design suggestions that can engage teacher thinking. 相似文献
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Amina Cviko Susan McKenney Joke Voogt 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2012,60(1):31-54
PictoPal is the name of a technology-rich curriculum with a focus on emergent literacy of Dutch kindergarteners. A case study
design was used to examine teacher technology integration within PictoPal along with their perceptions about teaching/learning,
technology and technology-based innovations. Observations were undertaken on pupils’ engagement and teachers’ technology integration
within PictoPal. Interviews were used to examine teachers’ perceptions. Pupils’ emergent literacy learning was examined in
a nonequivalent control quasi experimental design. Four kindergarten teachers and four classes (N = 95 pupils) participated in the use of PictoPal. The findings suggest that a high extent of technology integration is related
to: a developmental approach to teaching/learning; positive attitudes and expectations towards technology-based innovations;
and positive perceptions of support in stressful work conditions. Significant learning gains were found for the experimental
group using PictoPal. High pupil learning gains were not related to a high extent of technology integration. Senior kindergarteners
engaged to a higher extent with PictoPal than junior kindergarteners. 相似文献