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A Study Of Mathematics Anxiety in Pre-Service Teachers 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Gina Gresham 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(2):181-188
The study investigated the changes in levels of mathematics anxiety among pre-service teachers in six different sections of
a mathematics method courses for early childhood/elementary education pre-service teachers. The changes were a function of
using Bruner’s framework of developing conceptual knowledge before procedural knowledge and using manipulatives and other
activities to make mathematics concepts more concrete and meaningful. Data were collected using quantitative and qualitative
measures. Two hundred forty-six pre-service teachers completed a 98-item Likert-type survey. Informal discussions, informal
interviews, and questionnaire-guided narrative interviews were conducted with pre-service teachers. Data revealed a statistically
significant reduction in mathematics anxiety in pre-service teachers (p < .001) who completed a mathematics methods course that emphasized Bruner’s model of concept development. Results of the
study have implications for teacher education programs concerning how future teachers are trained, the measurement of mathematics
anxiety levels among pre-service teachers, and the determination of specific contexts in which mathematics anxiety can be
interpreted and reduced. 相似文献
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Rut Almeida Alicia Bruno Josefa Perdomo-Díaz 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2016,14(5):959-978
This paper presents some results of an investigation on the number sense of a group of pre-service secondary teachers from Spain. The objective of this research was to analyze students’ use of strategies associated to number sense and compare them with those obtained in a previous study with pre-service primary teachers in Taiwan, (Yang, Reys & Reys, International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 7, 383–403, 2009). Pre-service secondary teachers showed lower success than pre-service primary teachers in a number sense test. Nevertheless, these last based their reasoning mainly on rules and algorithms, while pre-service secondary teachers used more strategies of number sense. In an attempt to delve into the low success shown by of Spanish pre-service secondary teachers, some students were interviewed. Those interviews showed that a deeper work on number sense in the training of these students is needed. 相似文献
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In the context of the emphasis on inquiry teaching in science education, this study looks into how pre-service elementary
teachers understand and practise science inquiry teaching during field experience. By examining inquiry lesson preparation,
practice, and reflections of pre-service elementary teachers, we attempt to understand the difficulties they encounter and
what could result from those difficulties in their practice. A total of 16 seniors (fourth-year students) in an elementary
teacher education program participated in this study. In our findings, we highlight three difficulties ‘on the lesson’ that are related to teaching practices that were missing in the classrooms: (1) developing children’s own ideas and curiosity,
(2) guiding children in designing valid experiments for their hypotheses, (3) scaffolding children’s data interpretation and
discussion and another three difficulties ‘under the lesson’ that are related to problems with the pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of the task: (4) tension between guided and
open inquiry, (5) incomplete understanding of hypothesis, and (6) lack of confidence in science content knowledge. Based on
these findings, we discuss how these difficulties are complexly related in the pre-service teachers’ understandings and action.
Several suggestions for science teacher education for inquiry teaching, especially hypothesis-based inquiry teaching, are
then explored. 相似文献
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Mehmet Bekdemir 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2010,75(3):311-328
One of the aims of this study is to examine whether the worst experiences and most troublesome mathematics classroom experience
affect mathematics anxiety in pre-service elementary teachers. Another goal is to find out how the causes of their anxiety
relate to these negative experiences. The participants were 167 senior elementary pre-service teachers. Three different instruments
were used to collect data; Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale, Worst Experience and Most Troublesome Mathematics Classroom Experience
Reflection Test, and Interview Protocol. The findings show that many pre-service teachers have mathematics anxiety and that
the worst experience and the most troublesome mathematics classroom experience have a direct influence on mathematics anxiety
in pre-service teachers. Also, the majority of instances of participants’ mathematics anxiety are caused by the teachers,
their behavior or teaching approaches in their past. 相似文献
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Sedat Ucar 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(2):255-266
Every aspect of teaching, including the instructional method, the course content, and the types of assessments, is influenced
by teachers’ attitudes and beliefs. Teacher education programs play an important role in the development of beliefs regarding
teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was to document pre-service teachers’ views on science, scientists, and science
teaching as well as the relations between these views and the offered courses over several years spent in an elementary science
teacher training program. The sample consisted of 145 pre-service elementary science teachers who were being trained to teach
general science to students in the 6th through 8th grades. The research design was a cross-sectional study. Three different
instruments were used to collect the data, namely, the “Draw a Scientist Test”, “Draw a Science Teacher Test”, and “Students’
Views about Science” tests. The elementary science teacher training program influenced pre-service science teachers’ views
about science, scientists and science teaching to different degrees. The most pronounced impact of the program was on views
about science teaching. Participants’ impressions of science teaching changed from teacher-centered views to student-centered
ones. In contrast, participants’ views about scientists and science did not change much. This result could be interpreted
as indicating that science teacher training programs do not change views about science and scientists but do change beliefs
regarding teaching science. 相似文献
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From PCK to TPACK: Developing a Transformative Model for Pre-Service Science Teachers 总被引:4,自引:2,他引:2
New science teachers should be equipped with the ability to integrate and design the curriculum and technology for innovative
teaching. How to integrate technology into pre-service science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge is the important issue.
This study examined the impact on a transformative model of integrating technology and peer coaching for developing technological
pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) of pre-service science teachers. A transformative model and an online system were
designed to restructure science teacher education courses. Participants of this study included an instructor and 12 pre-service
teachers. The main sources of data included written assignments, online data, reflective journals, videotapes and interviews.
This study expanded four views, namely, the comprehensive, imitative, transformative and integrative views to explore the
impact of TPACK. The model could help pre-service teachers develop technological pedagogical methods and strategies of integrating
subject-matter knowledge into science lessons, and further enhanced their TPACK. 相似文献
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Over the last 50?years, there has been ample research dedicated to mathematics anxiety in contexts of teaching and learning. However, there has been less attention focused on pre-service teachers’ anxieties about teaching mathematics in classroom settings. This study analyzed pre-service teachers’ reflections at the conclusion of an elementary mathematics field experience in order to determine common themes surrounding anxiety-related events based on mathematics practice-teaching experiences. Through qualitative analysis of pre-service teachers’ reflections using open and axial coding, three categories and ten themes surrounding elementary pre-service teachers’ anxiety-related events based on mathematics practice-teaching experiences emerged. Some of the themes presented were ones that increased pre-service teachers’ anxieties for teaching mathematics, whereas other themes reflected aspects of the field experience that decreased anxiety for teaching mathematics. Based on the themes revealed in this study, suggestions for strategies and materials that could be developed for university mathematics methods courses are discussed. Novel perspectives for considering mathematics teaching anxiety, such as locus of control and future time perspective, are shared. 相似文献
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Mary Wong Siew Lian 《Research in Science Education》1998,28(3):337-352
This study used concept map content analysis and interviews to gain insights into the knowledge organisation and knowledge
processing of pre-service teachers. Forty-eight preservice teachers of elementary science from a teachers’ training college
in Sarawak, Malaysia, participated in this study. Correlations between achievement and five concept map characteristics showed
that there were significant positive correlations (p<.01) between achievement and: the number of appropriate links; the average number of appropriate concepts per cluster; and,
the hierarchy score of subjects’ concept maps, and significant negative correlations (p<.01) between achievement and: the number of inappropriate links; and, the average number of inappropriate concepts per cluster.
Interviews with high-achievers and lowachievers revealed that there were differences in the way they processed knowledge during
concept mapping. The high-achievers were more thorough than were the low-achievers in cognitive processing of knowledge, taking
time to make sense of concepts, sort and group concepts, form relevant links between concepts, and organise concepts hierarchically.
Active cognitive processing of knowledge seems to be related to more complex, well-integrated cognitive structures for the
material learned. 相似文献
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Esen Uzuntiryaki Yezdan Boz Demet Kirbulut Oktay Bektas 《Research in Science Education》2010,40(3):403-424
This study aimed to explore pre-service chemistry teachers’ beliefs about constructivism and the influence of their beliefs
in their teaching practice. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were carried out with eight pre-service teachers
in order to understand their belief structures. Pre-service teachers’ beliefs about constructivism were classified in three
categories which are weak, moderate, and strong conceptions of constructivism. For detailed exploration, three cases of pre-service
teachers representing these three categories were selected. The findings of this study showed that most pre-service teachers
in this study did not have a strong conception of constructivism and the relationship between the pre-service teachers’ beliefs
and their practice was not clear-cut. 相似文献
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Limin Chen Wim Van Dooren Qi Chen Lieven Verschaffel 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(4):919-948
In the present study, which is a part of a research project about realistic word problem solving and problem posing in Chinese
elementary schools, a problem solving and a problem posing test were administered to 128 pre-service and in-service elementary
school teachers from Tianjin City in China, wherein the teachers were asked to solve 3 contextually challenging division-with-remainder
(DWR) word problems and pose word problems according to 3 symbolic expressions. Afterwards, they were also given 2 questionnaires
wherein they had to evaluate 3 different pupil reactions to, respectively, 1 problem solving item and 1 problem posing item
about DWR. First, our results revealed that teachers behaved quite ‘realistically’ not only when solving and posing DWR problems
themselves but also when evaluating elementary school pupils’ DWR problem solving and problem posing performance. Second,
we found a correspondence between teachers’ own performance on the tests and their evaluations of pupils’ reactions. Third,
the present study provides some further insight into the role of one of the instructional factors that is generally considered
responsible for the strong and worldwide tendency among elementary school children to neglect real-world knowledge and realistic
considerations in their endeavours to solve and pose mathematical word problems, namely the teachers’ conceptions and beliefs
about this topic. 相似文献
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Anne K. Morris 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2006,9(5):471-505
This study investigated the learning-from-practice skills that pre-service teachers possess when they enter teacher preparation programs in the United States. Two subskills were hypothesized to represent, at least in part, what is required to learn from practice: (1) the ability to collect evidence about students’ learning in order to analyze the effects of instruction, and (2) the ability to use the analysis to revise the instruction. Because it seems likely that different teaching situations and contexts reveal these learning-from-practice skills in different ways and to different degrees, this study examined the skills that pre-service teachers exhibited under two experimental conditions. Thirty pre-service teachers were asked to analyze the effects of a videotaped mathematics lesson on student learning, to support their analysis with evidence, and to use their analysis to revise the lesson. Based on the results, it appears that many entry level pre-service teachers can carry out a cause-effect type of analysis of the relationships between specific instructional strategies and students’ learning, and can use this analysis to make productive revisions to the instruction. However, prospective teachers’ ability to collect evidence that supports their analysis appears to be less developed. In addition, the type of analysis that prospective teachers carried out about the effects of instruction on students’ learning differed dramatically across the two experimental task conditions.Preparation of this article was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant #0083429 to the Mid-Atlantic Center for Teaching and Learning Mathematics). The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Foundation. Thanks to James Hiebert for his comments on earlier drafts of the paper. 相似文献
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Muammer Çalik Alipaşa Ayas Richard Kevin Coll 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2007,5(1):1-28
This paper reports on the use of a constructivist-based pedagogy to enhance understanding of some features of solution chemistry.
Pre-service science teacher trainees' prior knowledge about the dissolution of salts and sugar in water were elicited by the
use of a simple diagnostic tool. The test revealed widespread alternative conceptions. These evaluation data were used to
produce two segments of ‘conceptual change text’: concise summaries that present alternative and scientific conceptualizations
for the concepts under study. The texts were administered to 21 pre-service elementary trainee teachers whose understandings
of number of conceptions were subsequently re-evaluated employing a pre-test post-test approach in which their answers and
reasons for their answers were solicited. The findings suggest that these pre-service elementary trainees' alternative conceptions
are changed to become more in accord with the scientific view, with more participants providing correct answers along with
correct reasons than before the intervention. This work suggests that the use of conceptual change text may provide a simple
and cost and resource-effective way to aid conceptual understanding for the dissolution of ionic solids in water including
the effect of solute surface on the dissolution process. 相似文献
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David Ben-Chaim Yaffa Keret Bat-Sheva Ilany 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,10(4-6):333-340
In this study we created, implemented, and evaluated the impact of proportional reasoning authentic investigative tasks on
the mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge and attitudes of pre-service elementary and middle school mathematics teachers.
For this purpose, a special teaching model was developed, implemented, and tested as part of the pre-service mathematics teacher
education programs conducted in Israeli teacher colleges. The conclusion of the study is that application of the model, through
which the pre-service teachers gain experience of and are exposed to authentic investigative proportional reasoning tasks
with incorporation of theory (reading and analyzing relevant research reports) and practice, leads to a significant positive
change in the pre-service teachers’ mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge. In addition, improvement occurred in their
attitudes and beliefs towards learning and teaching mathematics in general, and ratio and proportion in particular. 相似文献
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Ruth Wheeldon 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(3):403-422
Chemistry students’ explanations of ionisation energy phenomena often involve a number of non-scientific or inappropriate
ideas being used to form causality arguments. Research has attributed this to many science teachers using these ideas themselves
(Tan and Taber, in J Chem Educ 86(5):623–629, 2009). This research extends this work by considering which atomic models are used in pre-service teachers’ explanations and how
that relates to the causality ideas expressed. Thirty-one pre-service teachers were interviewed. Each was asked to describe
and explain four different atomic representations (Rutherford, Electron cloud micrograph, Bohr and Schr?dinger types) in as
much detail as they could. They also provided an explanation for the subsequent ionisation energy values for an oxygen atom
and identified which representations were helpful in explaining the values. Significantly, when pre-service teachers only
used Bohr type representations, they did not use repelling electron ideas in their explanations. However, arguments that were
based on electron–electron repulsion used features from Schr?dinger type atoms. These findings suggest that many pre-service
teachers need to develop their atomic modelling skills so that they select and use models more expertly and that subsequent
ionisation explanations offer a context in which to explore different atomic models’ limitations and their deployment as explanatory
resources. 相似文献
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The present study aims to explore the use of assessment in mathematics content courses for future elementary school teachers.
Analysis of self assessment data on mathematical understanding and peer assessment data on oral mathematical presentation
showed that pre-service teachers had a balanced understanding of procedural knowledge and problem solving. Conceptual understanding
was not in the structure of pre-service teachers’ mathematical knowledge. Understandings of conceptual knowledge, procedural
knowledge, and problem solving had no meaningful effects on gains in mathematics performance. Aspects of oral mathematical
presentation were associated with improved understanding of procedural knowledge and in particular conceptual knowledge. The
result of the study calls for a conceptual approach to mathematical knowledge and sufficient mathematical problem solving
in college-level mathematics content courses and in particular the infusion of assessment into college-level mathematics education
for pre-service teachers. 相似文献
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Mustafa Serdar Köksal 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2011,22(7):661-677
The degree to which pre-service teachers learn biology is related to both motivational factors of self-regulation and factors
regarding epistemological beliefs. At the same time, self-regulation and epistemological beliefs are also associated with
one another. Based on this relationship, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between components
of epistemological beliefs and self-refulation (self-efficacy and test-anxiety) on learning biology. The study was conducted
with 411 pre-service elementary and pre-service elementary science teachers by using a predictive research approach. Collected
data was analyzed by the multiple linear regression technique. The results showed that only the belief about “existence of
one truth” was a significant predictor of test anxiety while there was no epistemological predictor of self-efficacy. Conclusions
and implications of the study will be discussed. 相似文献
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Ali Ebrahim 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(2):293-314
This study compares the effects of two methods of teaching—teacher-centered and cooperative learning—on students’ science
achievement and use of social skills. The sample consists of 163 female elementary science students in 8 intact grade 5 classes
who were assigned to 2 instructional methods and were taught an identical science unit by 4 classroom teachers. The students’
science achievement was measured by a researcher-designed achievement test given to students as a pretest and a posttest.
Students’ social skills were determined by a researcher-designed survey administered as a pretest and posttest. Analysis of
the achievement test scores and the social skills survey responses revealed that cooperative learning strategies have significantly
(p > 0.05) more positive effects on both students’ achievement and social skills than teacher-centered strategies. These results
provide an evidential base to inform policy decisions and encourage and persuade teachers to implement cooperative learning
methods in Kuwaiti classrooms. 相似文献
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Xavier Fazio Wayne Melville Anthony Bartley 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2010,21(6):665-681
This article disseminates findings from a multi-year study regarding secondary preservice science teachers’ perceptions toward
inquiry-based science teaching, and the extent these perceptions are augmented by their practicum. While findings indicated
that preservice teachers did improve their understanding and capability of using scientific inquiry due to their methods course,
the role of practicum in supporting their newly developed perceptions was problematic. Issues ranging from associate teacher
subjugation, availability of resources, time constraints, and the need to address curriculum standards were the most commonly
cited reasons for preservice teachers’ difficulty in creating an inquiry-based environment during their practicum. Implications
are presented highlighting the importance of practicum experiences as a key determinant of pre-service science teachers’ emerging
inquiry-based science views and practices. 相似文献
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Amal Hussain Alajmi 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2016,14(8):1517-1534
This study reports on the algebraic generalization strategies used by elementary and middle/high school pre-service mathematics teachers in Kuwait. They were presented with 9 tasks that involved linear, exponential, and quadratic situations. The results showed that these pre-service teachers had difficulty in generalizing algebraic rules in all 3 types of tasks. The most difficult problems were those involving exponents; they seemed to confuse exponential growth with the multiplication of n. Although they used several strategies such as explicit, recursive, and chunking, they tended to rely on explicit reasoning. They saw the explicit rule as a quick and easy rule to be used. In order to improve students’ understanding of algebraic reasoning, we must improve the understating of generalization. Teachers’ programs should put more emphasis on the type of content that teachers need to learn rather than on how much mathematics credits teachers need. 相似文献
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Characteristics of Pre-Service Teachers’ Online Discourse: The Study of Local Streams 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Ling L. Liang Jazlin Ebenezer Deborah S. Yost 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(1):69-79
This study describes the characteristics of pre-service teachers’ discourse on a WebCT Bulletin Board in their investigations
of local streams in an integrated mathematics and science course. A qualitative analysis of data revealed that the pre-service
teachers conducted collaborative discourse in framing their research questions, conducting research and writing reports. The
science teacher educator provided feedback and carefully crafted prompts to help pre-service teachers develop and refine their
work. Overall, the online discourse formats enhance out-of-class communication and support collaborative group work. But the
discourse on the critical examination of one another’s point of views rooted in scientific inquiry appeared to be missing.
It is suggested that pre-service teachers should be given more guidance and opportunities in science courses in carrying out
scientific discourse that reflects reform-based scientific inquiry. 相似文献