scholarly journals The Impact of Teacher Characteristics on Educational Differentiation Practices in Lower Secondary Mathematics Instruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Ulrika Ekstam ◽  
Karin Linnanmäki ◽  
Pirjo Aunio
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Teacher Characteristics ◽  
Mathematics Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Teacher Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to investigate how teachers’ certification status, experience in instruction, and teachers’ efficacy beliefs for teaching lower secondary students in mathematics are related to differentiated instruction practices. A total of 42 mathematics teachers and 27 special education teachers answered an electronic questionnaire regarding mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs and their frequency of use of differentiation practices. The results indicated that teachers’ efficacy beliefs were related to differentiation in content, flexible examination models, homework support, and co-teaching. Neither certification status nor teacher experience in instruction was related to the frequency of use of differentiation practices. As teacher efficacy beliefs seem to have an effect on the use of differentiation practices, and especially on co-teaching, it should be important for teacher education to focus on developing pre-service teachers’ efficacy beliefs as well as implementing a strong collaboration between different teacher groups.

scholarly journals ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING AMONG HIGHER DIPLOMA SCIENCE TEACHERS USING COGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP MODE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzan Mahmoud Abu-Hudra
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Cognitive Apprenticeship ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Science Teaching Efficacy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Personal Science Teaching Efficacy

The focus of the expert interaction in a cognitive apprenticeship is on developing cognitive skills of reflection through discourse and application of knowledge. The propose of this study explanatory a method for enhancing the effectiveness of cognitive apprenticeship theory for improving personal science teaching efficacy beliefs of higher diploma preservice teachers. The research is based on the study of the impact of cognitive apprenticeship in studying science materials. The study involved 22 teachers (20-30 years) enrolled in 14-week Science teaching strategies course in the high general diploma in Science and Humanities College-Jubail, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. The instrument contained 23 items and divided into two sub-scales: 13 items measuring personal science teaching efficacy PSTE and 10 items measuring science teaching outcome efficacy STOE. The quantitative findings showed a continuous statistically significant linear increase between before and after course measures of PSTE. However, a slight decrease in their PSTE was observed in the final post-course measure that is a commonly observed long-term effect after many educational interventions. A t-test determined that the decline was not statistically significant, indicating that teaching internship had no significant effect on the preservice teachers' science teaching efficacy beliefs. The study provides a significant evidence to suggest that the preservice teachers perceived that their learning experience in the Science teaching strategies course by cognitive apprenticeship methods was unique when compared to before teaching methods courses taken.    

scholarly journals Investigation of Mathematics Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Teaching Mathematics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mithat TAKUNYACI
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs About Teaching

Teachers’ beliefs about teaching mathematics have a great influence on students’ success in mathematics. In addition, teachers with high teaching efficacy beliefs create classroom environments where students can be more successful. In the light of this information, the importance of understanding mathematics teachers’ beliefs about their competence has to be considered in mathematics teaching. In this study, a relational survey model was used to examine secondary mathematics teachers’ efficacy beliefs about teaching mathematics in terms of some variables. The sample of the study consists of 165 mathematics teachers selected with the stratified sampling method. In this study, Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Belief Scale, developed by Enochs, Smith, and Huinker (2000) and adapted to Turkish by Takunyacı and Aydın (2013) was used. The first finding of our study is mathematics teachers’ beliefs about mathematics teaching were medium level. The second finding of our study is the personal mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs of male teachers were significantly higher than female teachers, while female teachers’ efficacy beliefs about outcome expectations in mathematics teaching were significantly higher than male teachers. The third finding of our study is efficacy beliefs of mathematics teachers working in private high schools about the outcome expectation in mathematics teaching were significantly higher than the mathematics teachers working in public high schools. In the last finding of our study, it was found that the personal mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs of mathematics teachers with professional seniority of 11 years or more were significantly higher than teachers with professional seniority of 0-5 years.

Teachers’ Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics Teaching: A Study of Public Primary Schools in Sarawak

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Nor Hazizah Julaihi ◽  
Voon Li Li ◽  
Tang Howe Eng
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Outcome Expectancy ◽  
School Students ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Personal Efficacy ◽  
Mathematics Teaching Efficacy

The Ministry of Education in Malaysia has voiced concern over the serious problems of underachieving primary school students in Mathematics. While the Ministry is gearing its education direction towards a new generation of STEM experts, the teachers have been assigned to shoulder the movement of the vision. Hence, their views must be understood. A study was conducted among 66 Mathematics teachers from 39 public primary schools in the sub-urban district of Samarahan inMalaysia to understand their mathematics teaching efficacy. The Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Instrument (MTEBI) by Enochs, Smith and Huinker (2000) was adapted and used in the data collection. Quantitative data analysis methods include descriptive statistics and the analysis of variance. The results indicated that the teachers were confident of their efficacy in Mathematics teaching. Specifically, the teachers’ personal efficacy was slightly lower than outcome expectancy. In addition, there was a moderate positive significant relationship between teachers’ personal efficacy and outcome expectancy. Gender, years of Mathematics teaching experience and highest education attained were not significant to teachers’ efficacy.

Internal Consistency Reliability and Validity of the Arabic Translation of the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Instrument

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 833-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitham M. Alkhateeb
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Mathematics Teaching Efficacy

The Arabic translation of the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs was completed by 144 undergraduate students ( M age = 20.6) in Jordan. The findings support the internal reliability of the Arabic translation of the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs as well as its construct validity.

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