Building and assessing subject knowledge in mathematics for pre-service students

Measuring Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics

This paper reports on the knowledge for teaching mathematics of 294 pre-service primary teachers from seven Australian universities participating in a project aimed at establishing a culture of evidence-based improvement of teacher education. The project was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Rasch measurement techniques were used to validate and obtain performance measures...

CSCL-Based Pre-Service Teacher Program as Knowledge Building

The study reports two design experiments on the pre-service teacher program to advance their understanding of learning as knowledge building. We designed the course with a CSCL tool. In the first year, we did not have information on students’ characteristics. Analyses of students’ final essays and their discourse activities on the CSCL showed: (1) that we failed to improve students’ understandi...

Students assessing their own knowledge advances in a knowledge building environment

We describe the design of a knowledge-building environment and examine the roles of knowledge-building portfolios in characterizing and scaffolding collaborative inquiry. Three classes of Grade 9 students in Hong Kong used Knowledge Forum (KF) under several design conditions. Results showed (1) Students working on portfolios guided with knowledge building principles showed more participation, d...

Assessing Students ' Conceptions of Reform Mathematics

TPACK for Pre-service Science and Mathematics Teachers

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