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Publication Date: 2019
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Exploring Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Efficacy Beliefs
Gresham, Gina; Burleigh, Caroline
Teaching Education, v30 n2 p217-241 2019
Early childhood preservice teachers participated in a qualitative multiple case study to explore and examine the effectiveness of reform-based constructivist methods used in a mathematics methods course to change their mathematics anxiety, mathematics self-efficacy, and mathematics teachers' efficacy beliefs. Findings indicated that instructor's use of a variety of reform-based strategies to teach and model concepts were effective in reducing their mathematics anxiety and improving their mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs. Based on these findings, it is recommended that mathematics methods course instructors use reform-based constructivist methods in their courses as outlined by the NCTM's (2014) principles. Teacher educators must also consider carefully their attitudes and disposition toward mathematics along with the type of classroom and learning environment they establish in mathematics methods courses. They must emphasize conceptual understanding during mathematics methods courses, understand the connection between preservice teachers' mathematics anxiety and mathematics efficacy beliefs, and integrate field experiences as well as peer teaching opportunities into mathematics methods courses.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Beliefs, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Undergraduate Students, Education Majors, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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