Preservice mathematics teachers' conceptions and enactments of modeling standards

Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions and Enactments of Project-Based Instruction

We present results of an investigation of preservice secondary mathematics and science teachers’ conceptions of project-based instruction (PBI) and their enactments of PBI in apprentice (student) teaching. We evaluated their thinking and implementations within a composite framework based on the work of education researchers. We analyzed survey responses, both qualitatively and statistically, fr...

Addressing preservice teachers' conceptions of motivation1

Preservice teachers' prior knowledge about teaching and learning may di!er substantially from the theories and ideas presented in their education courses. In the present study, a refutational (conceptual change) text on motivation was used in an e!ort to address preservice teachers' conceptions of motivation. Results indicated that preservice teachers who read the refutational text performed si...

The Impact of Full Time Student Teaching on Preservice Teachers' Conceptions of Mathematics Teaching and Learning

This study investigated the changes in conceptions on mathematics teaching and learning of preservice BScEd teachers after 12 weeks of full time teaching practice. Written answers to open ended questions administered at the beginning and end of student teaching were triangulated with interviews. The preservice teachers exhibited more differences in conceptions on teaching than on learning mathe...

Preservice Teachers' Conceptions of Effective and Ineffective Teaching Practices

Given the focus on developing highly-qualified teachers to improve education (National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, 2003), teacher education programs face increasing responsibility to prepare new teachers who can effectively enhance learning in all students. Standards and assessment criteria developed by national organizations in the United States address the qualifications of b...

Mapping Changes in Support: A Longitudinal Analysis of Networks of Preservice Mathematics and Science Teachers