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ERIC Number: EJ696580
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep
Pages: 20
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-5984
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Developing Measures of Teachers' Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching
Hill, Heather C.; Schilling, Stephen G.; Ball, Deborah Loewenberg
Elementary School Journal, v105 n1 p11 Sep 2004
In this article we discuss efforts to design and empirically test measures of teachers' content knowledge for teaching elementary mathematics. We begin by reviewing the literature on teacher knowledge, noting how scholars have organized such knowledge. Next we describe survey items we wrote to represent knowledge for teaching mathematics and results from factor analysis and scaling work with these items. We found that teachers' knowledge for teaching elementary mathematics was multidimensional and included knowledge of various mathematical topics (e.g., number and operations, algebra) and domains (e.g., knowledge of content, knowledge of students and content). The constructs indicated by factor analysis formed psychometrically acceptable scales.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
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IES Cited: ED544189