Efforts to improve teachers’ knowledge of tools and strategies are often intertwined with their beliefs regarding mathematics teaching learning. Yet, few studies have examined the impact professional development designed bolster about young children’s mathematical development. In this study, we evaluated whether participants’ changed significantly after engaging in online learning on math child...

In their attempt to shed light on the factors contributing to the incongruity between L2 reading teachers’ beliefs and practices, most of the researchers have resorted to teachers’ personal perspectives. As a partial replication of the research carried out by Karimi and Dehghani (2016), the current study sought to broaden this restricted scope by examining the role of te...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of subject areas to teachers’ technology integration. Educational technology research has often identified “culture clashes” to explain differences in technology use between subject areas. These clashes are frequently attributed to core features, values and beliefs held in the subject area cultures, but there has been little research anal...

• This study reports on developing teachers’ subject-specific language beliefs scales. The developed scales have a reasonable fit and can be used in future research. Teachers agree with both teacher- student-regulation of learning processes. found two structures: constructivist traditional one. clusters teachers that correspond to the structures. explores structure French educational beliefs. F...

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