I S S N 1 3 0 8 -7 1 7 7 C i l t / V o l u m e : 4 2 0 1 5 -4 S a y ı / I s s u e : 2 A r a l ı k / D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 5 U l u s l a r a r a s ı H a k e m l i D e r g i I n t e r n a t i o n a l R e f e r e e d J o u r n a l 2 BARTIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ DERGİSİ Bartın Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (BÜEFAD), yılda iki kez yayımlanan uluslararası hakemli bir dergidir. Yazıların sorumluluğu, yazarlarına aittir.
The present study aimed to examine the geometric thinking levels of elementary mathematics teacher candidates and to reveal the relationship between the participants' geometric thinking levels and their self-efficacy beliefs towards geometry. The sample group of the study was comprised of 85 freshman students studying in the elementary mathematics teaching department. The study, in which the relational survey model was employed, the "Van Hiele Geometry Thinking Test" and the "Self-Efficacy Scale towards Geometry" were administered. The relationships were analyzed by means of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient Calculation Technique. Interestingly, the findings revealed that approximately 30% of the teacher candidates had not reached the 2nd level. Thus, it can be deduced that the candidates' geometric thinking levels were low. While the relationship between the participants' geometric thinking scores and their overall scores for self-efficacy towards geometry was expected to be high, the results yielded a significantly weak (r=.064), but positive correlation. The examination of the relationship between geometric thinking levels and the sub dimensions of the self-efficacy towards geometry test revealed a weak (r=.004) but positive correlation between geometric thinking levels and the scores for positive self-efficacy beliefs towards geometry. On the other hand, there was again a weak (r= -.047) but negative relationship between geometric thinking levels and self-efficacy towards being able to use geometry. Furthermore, the analyses yielded a weak (r= -.202) indirect, yet a more significant correlation between geometric thinking levels and self-efficacy beliefs towards geometry.
The governance of a particular educational philosophy is indispensable for any developed nation in the sense of ruling and governing over its current and future political sociology. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the relationships between mathematics teachers' applied instructional styles and their identified educational philosophical backgrounds. The study was conducted on 124 math teachers working in secondary schools during the 2016-2017 education years. This study aims to use a quantitative research method through the "Philosophical Preference Rating Scale" and the "Teaching Style Scale". The evidence indicates that teachers prefer personal model the most and authoritative teaching style the least. However, it is also determined that these teachers have predominantly experimentalist philosophical backgrounds. The least preferred philosophical approach is the existentialist understanding. In addition, teachers are able to predict their teaching styles, especially from idealistic, realistic, and perennial philosophical points. These indications inform us further on how and why the means of education system has remained much the same while education policies have been reformed many times throughout the recent years in Turkey.
The ‘technology integrated assessment process’ is an innovative method to capture and determine students’ understanding of mathematics. This assessment process is claimed to provide a singular dynamism for teaching and learning activities and it is also claimed to be of the most important elements of instruction in the educational system. In this sense, this study aims to investigate technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of prospective mathematics teachers regarding the ‘evaluation’ and ‘assessment’ process. To achieve this aim, the method of qualitative research was conducted with 20 teachers. Video records and lesson plans were collected and a Mathematics Teacher TPACK Development Model was utilized to reveal themes and key features of the data. The findings revealed that, although the majority of teachers stated that they would like to use technology-integrated tools in the assessment and evaluation processes, they strongly preferred to use traditional assessment and evaluation techniques, such as pen and paper activities, multiple-choice questions in virtual environments, etc. Hence, the evidence suggests that teachers would be unable to use appropriately the technological assessment process in order to reveal students’ understanding of mathematics. As seen from the teachers’ lectures, they perceived that technology would be suitable for evaluation and assessment but in a limited way. Keywords: Technological pedagogical content knowledge, prospective mathematics teachers
In the present study, the aim was to investigate 9th grade students' geometrical figure apprehension. To this end, the Figure Apprehension Cognitive Processes Test (FACPT), constructed by the researchers of the study, was administered to 51 ninth grade students, with whom clinical interviews were also conducted. As a result of the data analysed, it was found that the perceptual, discursive and operative types of apprehension of more than half of the students were not at enough level for high school geometry. Most of the students were found to be unsuccessful in recognizing the various sub-figures present within a geometric figure, in transforming verbal information to visual information, in deriving at verbal information based on visual information, in arriving at conclusions without being influenced by the appearance of a figure, and in decomposing and recomposing geometric figures. This shows that teachers need to focus on not only conceptual knowledge but also the structure of the figure apprehension processes of students prior to geometry classes.
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