Are Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Teaching Concerns Related to Their Epistemological Beliefs?

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2014-01-01

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BOZ, NİHAT
Boz, Yezdan

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The purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of year on pre-service teachers' epistemological beliefs and their teaching concerns as well as to investigate the relationship between teaching concerns and epistemological beliefs. One hundred seventy seven mathematics pre-service teachers enrolled in the Department of Secondary Mathematics Education in two universities participated in the present study. Two instruments: Teaching Concerns Checklist and Schommer Epistemological Questionnaire were used for data collection. Two MANOVAs were conducted to determine the effect of year on pre-service mathematics teachers' epistemological beliefs and their teaching concerns. In order to find out the relationship between pre-service teachers' teaching concerns and their epistemological beliefs, canonical analysis was conducted. It was found that there were no significant mean differences among pre-service teachers attending different years regarding teaching concerns, whereas there was a significant effect of year on pre-service teachers' epistemological beliefs. Apart from that, canonical analysis revealed a significant relationship between teaching concerns and epistemological beliefs.

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Epistemological beliefs, Pre-service teachers, Teacher education programs, Teaching concerns

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/55824

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CROATIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION-HRVATSKI CASOPIS ZA ODGOJ I OBRAZOVANJE

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N. BOZ and Y. Boz, “Are Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Teaching Concerns Related to Their Epistemological Beliefs?,” CROATIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION-HRVATSKI CASOPIS ZA ODGOJ I OBRAZOVANJE, pp. 335–362, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/55824.