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Savick, Stephanie L.; Thrift, Gary; Fenster, Mark – School-University Partnerships, 2018
Though the Professional Development School (PDS) model assumes that student teachers will be placed in cohorts as opposed to singletons during their student teaching experience in PDSs, little research is available to validate what the 'magic' number in those cohorts should be. In the state where the researchers' Institute for Higher Education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teaching, Teaching Experience, Student Teacher Attitudes
Riegle, Sandra; Warsame, Kitty – Online Submission, 2012
Teacher education is plagued by challenges pertaining to preservice teachers' attitudes toward diversity issues and the impact that these attitudes can have on instructional practices and teacher-student relationships. This study measured preservice teacher attitudes toward gender, race, and GLBTQ issues over the course of a semester, at a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Olthouse, Jill – Roeper Review, 2014
One hundred twenty-four undergraduate education majors completed the phrase "a gifted student is ______ " using a metaphor and then explained their choice of metaphor. Qualitative metaphor analysis influenced by Dai's (2009) essential tensions determined that preservice teachers conceive of giftedness as rapid memorization of content…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Academically Gifted, Student Teacher Attitudes
Roth-McDuffie, Amy; And Others – 1996
This is a one-semester case study of the perceptions of five preservice teachers and their mathematics professor as participants in a reform-style mathematics classroom under the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation (MCTP) program. Researchers interviewed the professor and the teacher candidates throughout the semester, gathering data to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Mathematics, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
McGinnis, J. Randy; Parker, Carolyn – 1999
This study reports the use of a valid and reliable instrument, "Attitudes and Beliefs About the Nature of and the Teaching of Mathematics and Science," to measure teacher candidates' attitudes and beliefs about the nature of mathematics and science teaching. This paper examines how teacher candidates felt over 3 years. Teacher candidates…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Gorrow, Teena R.; Muller, Susan M.; Schneider, Sidney R. – Education, 2005
This study was designed to examine the relationship between preservice teachers' perceived body sizes and confidence in their ability to teach. One hundred two participants completed a questionnaire that included 1) providing height and weight information, 2) completing The Teaching Anxiety Scale (TCHAS), 3) selecting body images best representing…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Body Composition, Self Concept