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Usta, H. Gonca – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study aims to analyze the student and school level variables that affect students' self-efficacy levels in mathematics in China-Shanghai, Turkey, and Greece based on PISA 2012 results. In line with this purpose, the hierarchical linear regression model (HLM) was employed. The interschool variability is estimated at approximately 17% in…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Ellez, Murat A. – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Prospective teachers' attitudes and beliefs regarding self-efficacy beliefs become the basis of their attitudes in their professional lives, as they affect their students' attitudes and self-efficacy. The aim of this study is to determine the primary teacher training students' attitudes towards mathematics and self-efficacy beliefs regarding…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Elementary Education, Preschool Education, Preservice Teachers
Debra Denise Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As potential discipline leaders, college professors desire to establish themselves as viable and credible assets to their programs. In this quest, the college music program must become relevant to the pre-service teacher so the K-20 classroom can flourish. Are music programs at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) preparing well-trained music…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Policy, Music Education, Preservice Teachers
Pavlekovic, Margita, Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
In the monograph The Math Teacher (following the Third International Scientific Colloquium Mathematics and Children in 2011), the term "teacher" designates a person who teaches mathematics, and the context of each article reveals whether this implies the teacher at a pre-school institution, a school or a university instructor. In…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Mathematics Education, Action Research, Self Efficacy
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Mart, Mehmet – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Daily plans are the key tool for teachers to ensure their delivery meets the expectations of the programme, and math activities are one of the important activities required to be offered daily in the early years to form the foundations of future math knowledge. As outdoor environments provide various learning opportunities, assessing the math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Outdoor Education, Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Education
Fleetwood, Allison J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Elementary teachers' mathematical self-efficacy is abundantly important in the mathematical growth in students. Research suggests early career teachers have a low level of self-efficacy in implementing arts integration. The purpose of this study was to examine perceived changes in teacher self-efficacy in implementing arts integration after…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Preschool Education
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Zhu, Jie; Yeung, Pui-sze; Hsieh, Wu-Ying – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
In China, a shift in early math teaching from a teacher-directed approach to a child-centered approach has been recommended. This study explored Chinese teachers' beliefs about early math teaching and learning, math teaching efficacy, and math-related practices in the context of unit block play. Early childhood teachers (N = 391) from Ningbo,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education
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Shelton, Ryann; Kerschen, Keith; Cooper, Sandi – Teacher Educator, 2020
This study was organized to examine the impact of a field experience for elementary preservice teachers working with young children enrolled in a summer academy focusing on early mathematics. The academy was designed to provide engaging learning experiences to support the development of early number concepts for pre-K students from an elementary…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Summer Programs
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Master, Allison; Cheryan, Sapna; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The American educational system currently yields disappointing levels of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) engagement and achievement among students. One way to remedy this may be to increase children's motivation in STEM from an early age. This study examined whether a social cue--being part of an experimental "minimal…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Preschool Education
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Geist, Eugene – Education, 2015
This study was conducted to examine the attitudes of Head Start teachers toward mathematics and how it may influence how and what they teach in the classroom. In general, the findings of this study can be summarized as this: 1) Math anxiety affects how teachers assess their ability at mathematics. The more math anxiety they report, the lower they…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Education
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Tsamir, Pessia; Tirosh, Dina; Levenson, Esther; Tabach, Michal; Barkai, Ruthi – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2014
This article describes a study that investigates preschool teachers' knowledge of their young students' number conceptions and the teachers' related self-efficacy beliefs. It also presents and illustrates elements of a professional development program designed explicitly to promote this knowledge among preschool teachers. Results…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Number Concepts
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Schenke, Katerina; Nguyen, Tutrang; Watts, Tyler W.; Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
We examined whether African American students differentially responded to dimensions of the observed classroom-learning environment compared with non-African American students. Further, we examined whether these dimensions of the classroom mediated treatment effects of a preschool mathematics intervention targeted at students from low-income…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Racial Differences, African American Students, Classroom Environment
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2020
For the forty-third time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains 37 papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Professional Development, Feminism