Beliefs of Efficacy and Elementary Teachers’ Computational Skills
Early mathematics content that is taught in elementary school lays the foundation for students’ advanced mathematics performance. Thus, researchers show it is important that pre-service elementary teachers build a strong background in numbers and operations, as well as efficacy beliefs in mathematic...
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| description | Early mathematics content that is taught in elementary school lays the foundation for students’ advanced mathematics performance. Thus, researchers show it is important that pre-service elementary teachers build a strong background in numbers and operations, as well as efficacy beliefs in mathematics instruction. This study expands the literature in the investigation of pre-service teachers’ efficacy beliefs and mathematical knowledge by making comparisons of pre-service elementary teachers’ views of efficacy to their overall ability in computation skills. Results show that elementary pre-service teachers who demonstrated lower scores in efficacy beliefs also had significantly lower computation scores. Implications for teacher preparation are also discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8fd672cd38d744b3859f4330536b859e2022-12-21T19:42:38ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityGeorgia Educational Researcher2471-00592014-06-0111110.20429/ger.2014.110102Beliefs of Efficacy and Elementary Teachers’ Computational SkillsVanessa HintonMargaret FloresKate SimmonsEarly mathematics content that is taught in elementary school lays the foundation for students’ advanced mathematics performance. Thus, researchers show it is important that pre-service elementary teachers build a strong background in numbers and operations, as well as efficacy beliefs in mathematics instruction. This study expands the literature in the investigation of pre-service teachers’ efficacy beliefs and mathematical knowledge by making comparisons of pre-service elementary teachers’ views of efficacy to their overall ability in computation skills. Results show that elementary pre-service teachers who demonstrated lower scores in efficacy beliefs also had significantly lower computation scores. Implications for teacher preparation are also discussed.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gerjournal/vol11/iss1/2efficacy beliefscomputationmathematics |
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| title | Beliefs of Efficacy and Elementary Teachers’ Computational Skills |
| title_full | Beliefs of Efficacy and Elementary Teachers’ Computational Skills |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Beliefs of Efficacy and Elementary Teachers’ Computational Skills |
| title_short | Beliefs of Efficacy and Elementary Teachers’ Computational Skills |
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