ERIC Number: EJ1460795
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1386-4416
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1820
Available Date: 2024-02-08
An Exploratory Study of the Relation between Teachers' Implicit Theories and Teacher Noticing
Meg S. Bates1; Joseph R. Cimpian2; Shereen Oca Beilstein1; Cheryl Moran3; Kate Curry4; Victoria Jay5; Genevieve M. Henricks4; Michelle Perry4
Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, v28 n1 p103-127 2025
Despite interest in how students' implicit theories--their growth and fixed mindsets about their own learning--affect students as learners, relatively little research on mindset has looked at "teachers" as learners. This study explores elementary teachers' implicit theories about the malleability of mathematics intelligence and teaching ability. It also examines how implicit theories of learning relate to teacher noticing, a construct that has been linked to teachers' classroom practice and their students' learning outcomes. Findings from the present investigation indicate that teachers generally reported growth mindsets concerning mathematics intelligence and teaching ability. For both mathematics intelligence and teaching ability, teachers' reporting of more growth--compared to more fixed--mindsets was associated with more expert noticing, as measured by comments they wrote about elementary mathematics video clips on the dimensions of mathematics and student thinking. These findings point to intriguing possibilities about whether fostering growth mindsets (of mathematics intelligence and of teaching ability) in professional development settings might be leveraged to promote expert teacher noticing.
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Attention, Teacher Effectiveness, Individual Development, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1621253
Author Affiliations: 1University of Illinois System, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, USA; 2New York University, Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities, New York, USA; 3University of Chicago STEM Education, Chicago, USA; 4University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Department of Educational Psychology, Champaign, USA; 5University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Psychology, Madison, USA