This paper reports on the initial phase of a research study that is investigating how and why secondary school mathematics teachers use digital technologies to help their students learn. Case studies of a beginning teacher and an experienced teacher, both of whom are regarded as effective users of technology, aim to identify critical factors that support or hinder innovative teaching and learni...

The teachers’ instructional planning, their classroom practices that impact on their students’ knowledge and beliefs could be understood as individual beliefs systems dependent from their actual teaching and learning experience. This individual experience might be contradictory when we regard different teachers or one teacher concerning different mathematical disciplines. For this reason, this ...

The focus on information technology in education has shifted towards curriculum integration. Consequently teacher education programs need to prepare graduates for teaching with IT. Graduates should possess both skills in the use of IT and belief in their capacity to integrate IT into teaching. Decisions about course design might be informed by a measure that is directly influenced by course cha...

The Eccles' expectancy-value model posits that a cascade of mechanisms explain associations between parents' beliefs and youths' achievement-related behaviors. Specifically, parents' beliefs predict parents' behaviors; in turn, parents' behaviors predict youths' motivational beliefs, and youths' motivational beliefs predict their behaviors. This investigation focused on testing this model with ...

The problem addressed in this study was the exploration of present uses of technology in secondary social studies classrooms and secondary social studies teachers’ perceptions of effective technology integration. This survey study examined teachers’ and students’ technology use, teachers’ pedagogical practices, teachers’ beliefs about technology and motivations when using technology, and teache...

With no wide agreement about beliefs and standards of behaviour being set, and with the mass media in constant pursuit, young people are often thought to be more vulnerable today than in the past. A book with this theme is assessed by an eminent teacher.

A summary of inclusion and co-teaching syntheses was conducted to better understand the evidence base associated with collaborative models of instruction. Six syntheses were identified: four investigated inclusion, and two investigated co-teaching. Collectively, the syntheses represented 146 studies. The syntheses investigated research on collaborative models; student outcomes; teachers’ attitu...

Implementation of health education programs is often inadequately considered or not considered at all in planning, developing and evaluating interventions. With the focus being predominantly on the adoption stage, little is known about the factors influencing the implementation and continuation stages of the diffusion process. This study contributes to the understanding of factors that promote ...

Teacher self-efficacy has been identified as an important characteristic of teachers that can positively influence both teacher and student outcomes. The relationship between teachers’ self-efficacy and their linguistic proficiency, however, is yet to be investigated. The present study was an attempt to examine the rather under-researched issue of teachers’ level of linguistic competence in the...