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Stacey Chanelle Zimmerman – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The ways teachers understand mathematics that is useful for teaching, known as mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT), has been a center of attention for the research and policy communities. A teacher's MKT has been shown to be a significant factor in predicting student outcomes and positively related to the quality of mathematics instructional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge Level
Fox, Antonia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the relationship between teacher self-efficacy beliefs and the level of student achievement their students obtain as evidenced by the Algebra I Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) assessment. This study also explored teachers' mathematics content knowledge, mathematics pedagogical knowledge,…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Teachers, Algebra
Moon, Kyunghee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined how preservice secondary mathematics teachers developed mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) around representations and big ideas through mathematics and mathematics education courses. The importance of big ideas and representations in mathematics has been emphasized in national standards as well as in literature. Yet,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Stiegelmeyer, Cindy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study surveyed 82 preservice elementary teachers using items from an instrument designed to predict student achievement based on a teacher's mathematics knowledge for teaching (MKT) in numbers and operations concepts. Additional mathematics beliefs items asked participants to rate their level of agreement with math myths and math anxiety…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement
Duarte, Jonathan T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Although current reform movements have stressed the importance of developing prospective middle school mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge and understandings, there is a dearth of research studies with regard to prospective middle school teachers' confidence and knowledge with respect to quadratic functions. This study was intended to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Equations (Mathematics)
Caswell, Lisa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the competence of beginning California K-6 teachers in basic algebra topics, and to investigate their level of math anxiety and attitudes toward math. The sample for this study was beginning California elementary teachers in the Bay Area of California. An algebra content assessment and a self-report…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Anxiety, Algebra