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The beliefs/practice connection in broadly defined contexts
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This paper examined the connection between the beliefs of secondary mathematics teachers and their classroom practices and found some consistency between broad relatively decontextualised teacher beliefs and student perceptions considered at the whole class level.Abstract:
The findings of a study that examined the connection between the beliefs of secondary mathematics teachers and their classroom practices are reported in this article. Classroom practice was defined in terms of the extent to which classroom environments could be characterised as constructivist. Cluster analysis was used to group teachers according to their responses to a beliefs instrument and to group their classes according to their average responses to a classroom environment survey. Associations between the two sets of clusters were found, suggesting some consistency between broad relatively decontextualised teacher beliefs and student perceptions considered at the whole class level.read more
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Spring cleaning for the “messy” construct of teachers’ beliefs: What are they? Which have been examined? What can they tell us?
TL;DR: For instance, the lack of cohesion and clear defi fitions has limited the explanatory and predictive potential of teachers' beliefs as discussed by the authors, which is a limitation of the existing empirical research on teachers' belief.
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Teachers' beliefs about school mathematics and mathematicians' mathematics and their relationship to practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present case studies of two secondary mathematics teachers, one experienced and the other relatively new to teaching, and consider their beliefs about the nature of mathematics, as a discipline and as a school subject.
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Teachers’ Beliefs That Matter in Secondary Mathematics Classrooms
Abstract: This paper reports the findings of a study that sought to identify particular centrally held beliefs of secondary mathematics teachers that underpinned the establishment of classroom environments that were consistent with the principles of constructivism The nine crucial beliefs identified were held by one or other of two teachers and emerged from teacher and student surveys, interviews with the teachers and classroom observations As is the case with all beliefs, these beliefs were contextually bound but since the contexts in which they applied were broader than particular classrooms it is argued that they may be generalisable to other contexts and even predictive of teachers likely to create similar classroom environments
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Learning to Teach Mathematics with Technology: A Survey of Professional Development Needs, Experiences and Impacts
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TL;DR: This paper found that teachers who participated in professional development were more confident in using technology and more convinced of its benefits in supporting students' learning of mathematics and were more likely than others to have attended technology-related professional development, with lack of time and limited access to resources acting as hindrances to many.
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Changes in preservice teachers' attitudes and beliefs: the net impact of two mathematics education units and intervening experiences
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