Investigating Teacher Candidates' Beliefs about Standardized Testing

Investigating the Content and Sources of Teacher Candidates ’ Personal Practical

Research on teachers’ (personal) theories and beliefs and their (practical) knowledge derived from experience, whether held implicitly or stated explicitly as their personal practical theories (PPTs), indicates that such beliefs can influence teachers’ classroom practices and, therefore, the opportunities that their students have for learning. This study uses a content analysis of 472 self-repo...

Learners' choices and beliefs about self-testing.

Students have to make scores of practical decisions when they study. We investigated the effectiveness of, and beliefs underlying, one such practical decision: the decision to test oneself while studying. Using a flashcards-like procedure, participants studied lists of word pairs. On the second of two study trials, participants either saw the entire pair again (pair mode) or saw the cue and att...

Self-testing 1 Learners' Choices and Beliefs about Self-testing

Students have to make scores of practical decisions when they study. We investigated the effectiveness of, and beliefs underlying, one such practical decision: the decision to test oneself while studying. Using a flashcards-like procedure, participants studied lists of word pairs. On the second of two study trials, participants either saw the entire pair again (pair mode) or saw the cue and att...

Learning Motivation of Teacher Candidates

The aim of this study is to examine whether the motivation level of recruited students differs in accordance with their sexes, success and department. The descriptive research method was used for the study, the population of which was composed of the recruited students in various Education Faculties from ten universities in country. 673 of the recruited students were female and 471 were male 47...

"beliefs about Beliefs" without Probabilities