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Gasteiger, Hedwig; Brunner, Esther; Chen, Ching-Shu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Results of international comparison studies show substantially better mathematics performance of the investigated Asian than European students from the early years on. A Taiwanese-German Research Program (TaiGer) engages in exploring differences and similarities in the educational system, in teachers' knowledge and beliefs and in teaching or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Mathematics Instruction, Early Childhood Education
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Laschke, Christin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
How individual characteristics affect the acquisition of knowledge in teacher education has been widely unexplored thus far. The "Teacher Education and Development Study--Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M)" provides a database for examining this research question across countries. Based on the Taiwanese and German sample of TEDS-M,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Individual Characteristics
Johannsdottir, Bjorg – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study focused on the mathematical content knowledge of prospective teachers in Iceland. The sample was 38 students in the School of Education at the University of Iceland, both graduate and undergraduate students. All of the participants in the study completed a questionnaire survey and 10 were interviewed. The choice of ways to measure the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies
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Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily – Educational Research Review, 2009
US and China are reforming mathematics teaching by shifting from students' attainment of facts and procedures toward development of competencies in reasoning, communication, connections, and problem solving, and application of these in real life contexts. Differences in students' overall performance, curricula, and teachers' knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Meta Analysis
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Delaney, Sean; Ball, Deborah Loewenberg; Hill, Heather C.; Schilling, Stephen G.; Zopf, Deborah – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2008
This article describes a study in which measures of mathematical knowledge for teaching developed in the United States were adapted to measure mathematical knowledge for teaching in Ireland. When adapting the measures it was not assumed that the mathematical knowledge used by Irish and U.S. teachers is the same. Instead psychometric and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Interviews