Portfolios are increasingly being used to stimulate teachers' reflections. Frameworks for reflection on teaching often emphasize competencies and behaviours. However, other aspects of teacher functioning are also important, such as the teaching environment and individual teachers' beliefs, professional identity and mission. In a study among five medical school teachers, we explored how a portfo...

Teaching is complex and demanding. Teachers require not only qualities such as passion and enthusiasm, but capacities for resilience, survival and innovation. To enable this, teachers need to cope with the demands of their external world – stresses that arise from curriculum and assessment changes, and other mandated educational reorganisations, most of which are beyond their immediate control....

BACKGROUND In a professional learner-centered(ness) educational environment, communication and alignment of expectations about teaching are indispensable. Professional education of residents could benefit from an analysis and comparison of teachers' and residents' educational expectations and beliefs. Our purpose is to identify success factors and barriers related to aligning expectations and b...

This report focuses on a research project that combines three aspects of a curriculum concerning teachers’ planning, teachers’ classroom practice, and their students’ statistical knowledge. The theoretical framework and methodology will be sketched. Next, the planning and classroom practice of four statistics teachers will be outlined. Finally, the report documents the knowledge and beliefs con...

Opinions about the psychological correlates of multimedia computer-supported instructional tools were analyzed by means of a questionnaire concerning the motivational and emotional aspects of multimedia learning, the strategies to be followed during the learning process, the mental abilities and the style of thinking required, the cognitive benefits and outcomes. The questionnaire was distribut...

Teaching efficacy beliefs have attracted researchers' attention in recent decades because of its close association with and potential impact on the implementation of new ideas and skills in education. In the present study, we have explored the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Turkish adaptation of the Mathematics Teacher Efficacy Belief Instrument developed by Enochs, Smith...

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This report focuses on in-service teachers’ planning of stochastic education. The theoretical and methodological settings of the research will be outlined in-depth. The methodological settings will be illustrated by research results concerning one teacher. A further main focus is to present some results concerning the planning of stochastic education conducted by 13 teachers.