scholarly journals Pre-service elementary education teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning in TurkeyTürkiye’de sınıf öğretmenliği öğretmen adaylarının öğretme ve öğrenme ile ilgili inançları

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 4002
Author(s):  
Sibel Duru

This study examines the Turkish elementary pre-service teachers’ beliefs about learning and teaching, their preferences concerning instructional practices, and the differences between elementary pre-service teachers in terms of beliefs about teaching, learning and instructional practices at different stages of teacher education programs. Two hundreds eighty nine pre-service teachers participated in the survey and 16 pre-service teachers participated in in-depth interviews.The study employs both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.    The quantitative research methods employed two surveys and computed a series of descriptive, correlation, t-test, ANOVA and regression analyses to answer the research questions. The contrast comparative analysis method is conducted for qualitative data analysis to explore pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning.   Results reveal that Turkish elementary education pre-service teachers have both traditional and constructivist beliefs about teaching and learning, but the majority of the participants has more constructivist tendencies in some points. The results of the current study also indicate that there are significant differences between the pre-service teachers due to gender, age, field experience, methods courses, and length of time in the program.Extended English abstract is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetBu çalışmada Türkiye’deki sınıf öğretmenliği öğretmen adaylarının öğrenme ve öğretim ile ilgili inançları, öğretim uygulamalarındaki tercihleri farklı değişkenler dikkate alınarak incelenmiştir.  Araştırmaya 290 öğretmen adayı katılmıştır ve bu adaylardan 16’sı ile derinlemesine görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Araştırmada hem nitel hem nicel araştırma dizaynı kullanılmıştır. Nicel araştırma dizaynı için demografik sorularla birlikte iki ölçek kullanılmış ve araştırma sorularına cevap verebilmek için betimsel, t-testi, korelasyon ve ANOVA analizleri yapılmıştır. Öğretmen adaylarının öğrenme ve öğretimle ilgili inançlarını açığa çıkarmak için nitel araştırma dizaynında yapılan derinlemesine görüşmeler nitel veri analizine tabii tutulmuştur.   Araştırma sonucuna göre sınıf öğretmenliği öğretmen adayları hem geleneksel (öğretmen merkezli) hem yapılandırmacı (öğrenci veya öğrenen merkezli) inançlara sahiptir. Ancak bu araştırmaya katılan öğretmen adaylarının çoğu özellikle öğretmen öğrenci ilişkisi gibi bazı boyutlarda daha yapılandırmacı eğilimlere sahiptir. Ayrıca, bu araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre öğretmen adaylarının öğrenme ve öğretimle ilgili inançları ve tercih ettikleri öğretim uygulamaları cinsiyet, alan deneyimi (okul deneyimi, öğretmenlik uygulaması gibi) ve sınıf düzeyleri değişkenlerine göre anlamlı farklılık göstermektedir.  

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-157
Author(s):  
Nasser Mansour

Research supports the idea that teachers are crucial change agents in educational reform and that teachers’ beliefs are precursors to change. This study investigates Egyptian science teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning science through Science Technology and Society STS education. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The findings of this study suggest that the Egyptian science teachers hold mixed beliefs (constructivist and traditional) concerning science education goals, their roles and their students’ roles within teaching and learning science through STS and concerning teaching/learning science through STS. The findings shed light on the relationship between teachers’ beliefs and their practises. Lastly, the study revealed a number of factors that caused inconsistency between teachers’ beliefs and their practices.


2021 ◽  
pp. 622-628
Author(s):  
Suerni .

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide, including Indonesia. The Indonesian government recommends all citizens to stay at home and to work and study from home. Therefore, most universities have implemented e-learning in their teaching and learning process. This research focused on the effect of e-learning on students’ interest and learning at the varsity level. Quantitative research methods were used. The data were collected from 176 students from two private universities in Medan, Sumatera Utara. The findings were that e-learning enabled the students to access the global world and distribute learning materials through WhatsApp. Assignments were marked promptly and e-learning helped students to set their own schedule. E-learning motivated the students to do their own work without others’ help, but the students did not agree that e-learning enhanced the quality of the teaching-learning process. Keywords: E-learning, teaching learning process, Varsity level, COVID-19


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Nahil Aljaberi ◽  
Eman Gheith

The aim of this study is four fold: (a) to investigate the beliefs of elementary (grades 1-3) and middle school (4-6 grades) math teachers about teaching, learning and nature of mathematics; (b) to explore their teaching practices of mathematics; (c) to study the impact of their educational qualifications, years of experience, major on their beliefs toward teaching, learning and nature of mathematics, and; (d) to explore the relationship between their beliefs about teaching learning and nature of mathematics and their teaching practices. Data were collected using two questionnaires: the Math Teacher Beliefs Scale and the Mathematics Teaching Practices Scale. The study sample consisted of 101 teachers who teach in 11 private schools located in Amman, Jordan. The result of this study showed that teachers’ beliefs towards teaching and learning mathematics are more inclined towards being constructive or mixed in between. It was also concluded that the teaching practices lean towards constructivism. There were no significant differences attributed to years of experience, academic level, major, or at what stage they teach, whether it revolves around the their beliefs towards teaching and learning mathematics or towards teaching practices (from teachers’ perspective). The study results revealed a statistically significant correlation between what the teachers believe and what teaching practices they put into use.


2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 352-357
Author(s):  
Preeti Sharda ◽  
Maneesh Kumar Bajpai

The ‘Google Classroom’ is one of the technologies used for the teaching and learning process. This paper explores the possibilities of how Google Classroom may be brought into use by educators for the effective teaching-learning process. The study’s main objectives are to understand ‘Google Classroom’ technology and find out the use of Google Classroom by the educators of India particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The study is quantitative research in nature. The data collected through Google form contains 18 questions. A sample of 1050 educators was collected to know the usage of Google classroom in the teaching-learning process. The result indicated that most of the respondents are using Google Classroom for teaching purposes which is good in terms of Ease of access, perceived usefulness, tracking the progress of students, communication and interaction between the teachers and the students. Results also show the effective use of google classroom by the librarians to provide e-library services to their users when physical access to libraries is not available. The study recommends that the Google Classroom may be used to enhance quality in imparting teaching and learning activities at all levels of education, especially during the Pandemic.


Author(s):  
Alshaima Saleh Alyafei

The current study investigates the beliefs held by science teachers on constructivism and a traditional approach in Qatar government primary schools. More specifically, it aims to investigate the challenges that science teachers experience during inquiry-based learning implementation. A web-based survey was conducted in order to collect data from grades 4 to 6 science teachers. A total of 112 science teachers responded and completed the survey on a voluntary basis. The results indicate that science teachers hold a higher beliefs in constructivism than traditional approach. A T-test and ANOVA analysis have showed that there is no significant differences between the beliefs of science teachers’ and their gender, level of education, and years of teaching experience. In addition, science teachers faced challenges in lesson planning, assessment, and teacher support.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Lana Šojat

In the past thirty years, there have been many political changes in Croatia. These changes have had an impact on the education system, as well. The success of such educational changes depends on the teacher. The importance of teachers’ knowledge and their beliefs about teaching and learning for their action in the classroom is well known. Beliefs influence teachers’ representation of science, science knowledge and the organisation of knowledge and information. Keeping teacher professional development in mind, preservice teachers’ beliefs need to be sought out and examined by educators. These beliefs should be developed in the direction of teaching chemistry taking into account recent reforms, as well as teaching and learning theories. Various studies have been undertaken in different education backgrounds and systems regarding the beliefs of both preservice and in-service teachers. These studies show different results depending on the context in which they are undertaken. Transferring data to the Croatian system is therefore difficult. However, there are no studies in Croatia focusing on the teachers’ beliefs regrading teaching and learning chemistry. The present study evaluates the initial beliefs of preservice chemistry teachers in Croatia. The participants were instructed to draw themselves as chemistry teachers in a typical classroom situation in chemistry, and to answer four open questions. Data analysis follows a pattern representing a range between the predominance of more traditional orientations versus more modern teaching orientations, in line with educational theory focusing on: 1) beliefs about classroom organisation, 2) beliefs about teaching objectives, and 3) epistemological beliefs. The data revealed mostly traditional and teacher-centred knowledge among all of the participants. In the present paper, the data will be discussed and the implications for Croatian chemistry teacher training will be established.


Author(s):  
Andris Bērziņš

<p>The publication reflects the qualitative development of construction students' ecological attitude in learning and teaching process in a vocational school. By facilitating the teaching and learning process, developing the content of education, introducing in teaching ecologically-oriented forms of work, methods, approaches and instruments; using the environment as a pedagogical tool and highlighting the important role of teacher as an ecological person in the accentuation of teaching content as students understand it. The author emphasizes the impact of the components of ecological education in the promotion of the reflection on the most essential attitude criteria – knowledge, skills and behaviour. Applying quantitative and qualitative research, the author sums up the experimantally obtained results showing that by the introduction of the components of ecological education, it is possible to foster the development of an ecological person.</p>


Author(s):  
Libi Shen ◽  
Irene Chen ◽  
Anne Grey ◽  
Anchi Su

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a fast speed and has incessantly impacted the modern world for decades. AI technologies are beneficial for all kinds of industries, including businesses, economics, transportation, hospitals, schools, universities, and so forth. Many researchers have investigated the development of artificial intelligence in education (AIEd), specifically on how AI assists teaching, learning, assessment, references, and collaboration. Several questions arise. What impact do AI technologies have on education? How do AI technologies assist teaching (e.g., curriculum, assessment, student learning, and teaching practices)? How do teachers cope with AI Technologies in education? What are the ethical concerns of AI technologies? What are the barriers of AI-based learning in education? The purpose of this chapter is to explore the evolution and the challenges of AI technologies in education. Major research on AI from 1999 to 2019 will be reviewed. Problems with AI in education will be raised and solutions for solving the issues will be recommended.


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