Math Teachers' Perceptions Regarding Financial Literacy

Teachers’ Perceptions of Best Practice in Statistical Literacy Education

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICE IN STATISTICAL...

Student Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding the Challenges of Leadership

Math ) Teachers Are the Key

skills are useful for different careers, and our math education should be changed to reflect this fact.” There is apparently very little to disagree with in the claim. But it completely misses the urgency in addressing the crisis facing us. The “worry” is based mostly on the poor learning and hence poor performance of our high school students who are just not ready at graduation to either succe...

Features of Language Assessment Literacy in Iranian English Language Teachers' Perceptions and Practices

anguage assessment literacy (LAL), mainly defined as knowledge and skills of language assessment, in the last two decades, has started to receive the attention it deserves. As one of the significant findings, based on a plethora of research, many second language (L2) teachers have been indicated to be professionally incompetent in terms of LAL. To investigate the status of LAL among Ira...

Female Teachers’ Math Anxiety Impacts Girls’ Math Achievement

People’s fear and anxiety about doing math – over and above actual math ability – can be an impediment to their math achievement. We show that when the math anxious individuals are female elementary school teachers, their math anxiety carries negative consequences for the math achievement of their female students. Early elementary school teachers in the U.S. are almost exclusively female (> 90%...