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Profiling Teacher Capacity in Statistical Thinking of National Curriculum Reform: A Comparative Study between Australia and China
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Zhang, Qinqiong; Stephens, Max – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
In the official curriculum documents of many countries, statistical thinking have become part of the mainstream in school curriculum. We argue that teacher capacity is a key dimension in realizing essential goals for developing students' statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking in practical teaching. In this paper, a construct of Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Teacher Characteristics, Statistics
Utilising a Construct of Teacher Capacity to Examine National Curriculum Reform in Mathematics
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Zhang, Qinqiong; Stephens, Max – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
This study involving 120 Australian and Chinese teachers introduces a construct of teacher capacity to analyse how teachers help students connect arithmetic learning and emerging algebraic thinking. Four criteria formed the basis of our construct of teacher capacity: knowledge of mathematics, interpretation of the intentions of official curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design