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Thomson, Margareta Maria; DiFrancesca, Daniell; Carrier, Sarah; Lee, Carrie – Teacher Development, 2017
This mixed-methods study investigated the relationships among preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs, pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and their domain knowledge (DK) as related to mathematics and science teaching. Quantitative results revealed that participants' PCK was significantly correlated with their mathematics and science efficacy…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
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Thomson, Margareta Maria – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study focused on investigating the types of schooling beliefs (teaching and learning) expressed through metaphorical images by prospective teachers (PTs) from the United States. Participants (N = 215) rated 10 schooling metaphors illustrating the "student-school-teacher" relationships (i.e. "Passenger-Bus-Driver"; Student…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Thomson, Margareta Maria; McIntyre, Ellen – Teacher Development, 2013
In this qualitative study the authors investigated how prospective teachers' professional goals were understood by participants. Interviews of 25 prospective teachers from the United States were collected as part of a larger mixed-methods study. Qualitative data from interviews (the focus of this study) examined the profiles of the three…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Educators, Educational Policy