Exploring the relationship between teacher enjoyment of mathematics,their attitudes towards student struggle and instructional time amongst early years primary teachers

In this study we explored the relationship between teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics, their attitudes towards student struggle, and the amount of time teachers spent teaching mathematics. Ninety-eight primary educators were surveyed regarding their attitudes and behaviors towards mathematics instruction. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics explained variance in both teacher attitudes towards student struggle and instructional time spent on mathematics, even after relevant educator characteristics were accounted for. Findings suggest that teacher enjoyment of teaching mathematics in the early primary years has important implications for both the quality and quantity of mathematics instruction students receive.     

Teachers' beliefs about school mathematics and mathematicians' mathematics and their relationship to practice

There is broad acceptance that mathematics teachers’ beliefs about the nature of mathematics influence the ways in which they teach the subject. It is also recognised that mathematics as practised in typical school classrooms is different from the mathematical activity of mathematicians. This paper presents case studies of two secondary mathematics teachers, one experienced and the other relatively new to teaching, and considers their beliefs about the nature of mathematics, as a discipline and as a school subject. Possible origins and future developments of the structures of their belief systems are discussed along with implications of such structures for their practice. It is suggested that beliefs about mathematics can usefully be considered in terms of a matrix that accommodates the possibility of differing views of school mathematics and the discipline.     

论智力与犯罪构成的关系

智力涉及的领域遍及犯罪和犯罪构成的方方面面,影响有大有小,对智力与犯罪的研究数不胜数,而智力与犯罪构成的关系还不清晰。本文分别从论述智力与犯罪构成四要件的关系着手,旨在探析智力与犯罪构成的关系。     

Classroom learning environment and motivation towards mathematics among secondary school students in Uganda

This article reports a study of secondary students’ perceptions of mathematics classroom learning environment and their associations with their motivation towards mathematics. A sample of 81 students (19 male and 62 female) in two schools were used. Student perceptions of the classroom environment were assessed using a modified What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire. Associations between student perceptions of the learning environment and motivation towards mathematics were examined using simple correlation and multiple regression analyses. The results of the t tests for independent samples indicated a statistically significant difference in student perceptions between different school types. Student perceptions on some of the modified WIHIC scales were statistically significantly associated with student motivation. The results suggest that teachers wishing to improve student motivation towards mathematics, in general, should emphasise the learning environment dimensions that are assessed by the WIHIC. The findings have implications for teachers of mathematics and head teachers, particularly those in secondary schools.     

浅谈小学数学教学中师生的课堂关系

进入21世纪的孩子们面临着更多的机遇和挑战,所以社会各界对教育的要求更高,实施素质教育已迫在眉睫.素质教育要求教学教学更重视学生的主体地位,重视数学思想的渗透,重视智力的开发和能力的培养,重视非智力因素的作用.在素质教育的课堂上应体现新的师生关系.     

浅谈高职数学教育与中学数学教育的衔接

基于现在高职数学教育的实际情况,从高职数学教育与中学数学教育的区别和衔接,针对知识点和学习方法两个方面进行了探讨。并根据一线教师多年的实际经验,给出了一定的解决方案。     

浅谈高中数学与初中数学的衔接

搞好初中与高中数学的衔接,是高一数学的一项重要内容。首先要处理好初高中教材的衔接点:"集合与函数概念","平面及其性质";其次是以旧导新,以旧带新,新旧对比,注意揭示新旧知识的内在联系,使新知识顺利地同化于原有的知识结构之中;第三是充分利用数形结合(即几何直观);第四是引导与督促。     

浅谈初中学生数学自学能力的培养

自学能力是人类生存的重要能力,对学生而言具有重要的意义和作用。通过自学能力的培养能提高学生的学习主动性,形成终身学习的习惯,更好的适应信息时代发展的要求。实际教学过程中应注重从激发学生兴趣和给予必要指导两个方面有计划的培养学生的自学信心和自学意识,使学生的自学能力得以形成。     

初中学生数学自主学习及其与数学成绩的关系研究

全面分析学生自主学习的心理结构,确定包括成就目标定向、学习兴趣、学习价值观、学习效能感和学习策略等五个分量表的自主学习测量问卷,信效度良好,对学生数学学业成绩有良好预测作用．以此作为评价工具实际测查和分析新课程背景下初中学生数学自主学习状况及其与数学成绩的关系．     

Secondary school students’ perceptions of teacher–student interaction and students’ attitudes towards project work

Project work (PW) provides one of the pathways for students’ self-inquiry learning and collaboration in Singapore schools. In this context, PW teachers function as facilitators. This study investigated quantitatively how a group of 270 secondary-school students (aged 14 years) perceived their seven PW teacher-facilitators’ face-to-face interactions with students based on the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI), and whether their perceptions of teacher–student interaction during PW classrooms were related with their attitudes towards PW learning as a whole. Seven out of eight QTI scales were associated with Enjoyment of Project Work Lessons and two QTI scales were associated with Attitude to Inquiry in Project Work. The findings are discussed in terms of how teachers who function as facilitators can translate their interpersonal behaviours into effective teaching strategies for communicating with students and facilitating students’ learning in PW classrooms.     

The relationship between personality and attitudes towards computers: an investigation among female undergraduate students in Israel

The relationships between computer-related attitudes and the Eysenckian personality dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism are explored among a sample of 298 female students in Israel. The data demonstrate that more positive attitudes towards computers are associated with higher scores on the psychoticism scale and lower scores on the extraversion scale. There is no significant relationship between attitudes towards computers and scores on the neuroticism scale     

The attitudes of Israeli Arab and Jewish high school students towards extrinsic and intrinsic values

The aim of this research was to investigate the attitudes of Israeli Arab (n = 259) and Jewish (n = 259) high school students toward extrinsic and intrinsic values. A questionnaire, which consisted of eight value scales in two groups—extrinsic and intrinsic values—was administered. Participants were asked to state whether they agreed or disagreed with 31 statements on a five-point Likert scale. Jewish students who experience school-based values education endorsed more intrinsic values (e.g. autonomy: Jews M = 4.27, SD = .53; Arabs M = 3.92, SD = .83), whereas Arab students, whose education as a minority group focuses on education towards achievement, endorsed more extrinsic values (e.g. attractiveness: Jews M = 3.56, SD = .82; Arabs M = 3.96, SD = .84). The findings suggest that the use of a more refined and complex analysis of extrinsic–intrinsic scales yields multiple interpretations of moral education in a modern world. This research may contribute to the discussion on moral education for minority groups, especially where they are a distinct minority in a society where they are surrounded by different cultural values. The growing cultural diversity in the Western world requires that through moral and civic education, schools explicitly expose their students, and especially minority groups, to the diverse interpretations of values and to the need to both respect differing interpretations, on the one hand, and to challenge them, on the other.     

中学生及其家长内隐智力观的发展研究

采用半结构式访谈调查与问卷调查相结合的方法,对中学生及其家长的内隐智力观进行了研究.在对聪明男生和女生的最重要特征的评定中,研究发现:①学生对于智力的理解多集中于与学习和人际交往有关的因素,并且其深刻性随着年龄增长达到更高水平.②家长对于智力的理解多集中在与学习及身·心健康有关的因素,并表现出随被评价人年龄增长而调整的趋势.③学生与家长的内隐智力观既具有某些一致性,主要表现为时不同年龄和性别的评价对象进行了不同的评价;也有一定的差异,具体为学生和家长关注的方面有所不同.     

大学生情绪智力与气质类型的关系

用情绪智力量表、气质量表研究了410名大学生的情绪智力和气质类型及其二者的关系。结果显示:男生在黏液质上的得分显著低于女大学生;不同气质类型大学生的情绪智力具有显著的差异,胆汁质和多血质得分越高的大学生,其情绪智力也越高。     

The relationship between adaptive behavior and intelligence for special needs students

This study employed the technique of factor analysis to study the relationship between social system adaptive behavior, as measured by the Adaptive Behavior Inventory for Children, and intelligence, as measured by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, in a sample of 100 special needs students, ages 6–11. The results clearly supported the existence of two distinct factors among the WISC-R and ABIC subscales, with each factor composed primarily of either intelligence or adaptive behavior subscales. Thus, the data supported the discriminant validity of the two measures. Implications for the evaluation of special needs students are discussed.     

Tongan students’ attitudes towards their subjects in new zealand relative to their academic achievement

Research indicates that affective attitudes such as liking of a subject and confidence in one’s ability within a subject predict academic performance. Generally, immigrant minority students have positive attitudes and often have low academic performance. This study examines the self-efficacy and liking of subjects of New Zealand students and analyses the relationship of those attitudes towards academic performance in mathematics, writing, and reading by self-reported ethnicity. Data were obtained from the norming samples from the Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning project in New Zealand. Of special interest are the relationships between attitude and performance for Pasifika and Tongan students in New Zealand. Tongan and Pasifika students had positive attitudes, but their mean scores were not significantly different to other ethnic groups except in writing for Tongan students. Tongan and Pasifika students did have lower academic performance than majority and Asian immigrant students in all three subjects. The correlation between liking and self-efficacy was fundamentally zero for Tongan and Pasifika students, while it was weakly positive for majority and Asian immigrant students. Together these results question the power of self-efficacy and liking attitudes to predict academic performance for immigrant students from agrarian or traditional societies. Further, the data suggest that ‘school effects’ are most likely explanations for this relationship, rather than lack of attachment, opposition, or deficiency theories.