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Uribe-Florez, Lida J.; Wilkins, Jesse L. M. – School Science and Mathematics, 2010
Using data from 503 inservice elementary teachers, this study investigated the relationship between teachers' background characteristics, teachers' beliefs about manipulatives, and the frequency with which teachers use manipulatives as part of their mathematics instruction. Findings from the study show that teachers' grade level and beliefs about…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Manipulative Materials
Roberts, T. Grady; Greiman, Bradley C.; Murphy, T. H.; Ricketts, John C.; Harlin, Julie F.; Briers, Gary E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
Over the course of the student teaching experience, a student teacher's intention to teach can increase, decrease, or remain the same. The purpose of this study was to explore differences in student teachers that were representative of each category. Teaching intention of 103 student teachers at four universities in 2005-2006 exhibited little…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Career Choice, Intention
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Hsu, Ying-Shao; Wu, Hsin-Kai; Hwang, Fu-Kwun – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer (1996) list five stages in the "evolution" of a teacher's capacity for computer-based instruction--entry, adoption, adaptation, appropriation and invention--which hereafter will be called the teacher's computer-based instructional evolution. In this study of approximately six hundred junior high school…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Lee, Joohi – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
This study examined correlations between teachers' attitudes toward mathematics/teaching mathematics and the practice of developmentally appropriate mathematics. This study tested two independent variables: (1) kindergarten teachers' attitudes toward mathematics; and (2) kindergarten teachers' attitudes toward teaching mathematics; and their…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Statistical Significance, Kindergarten, Researchers