Pre-service primary (elementary) teachers’ mathematics anxiety affects their engagement with and future teaching of mathematics. The study measured the range of mathematics anxiety in 219 pre-service teachers starting a teacher education course in an Australian university. They responded to the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (RMARS) and a set of demographic questions. Age differences in anxi...

introduction: this study was conducted to determine the most important strengths and weaknesses of the present evaluation system in tehran university of medical sciences and achieve the main factors to improve this system. method: it was a mixed method study design in two separate and sequential phases. the first phase was a qualitative step applying a document analysis method to interpret the ...

This study was designed to identify what pre-service teacher candidates knew about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and how they had acquired that knowledge in order to design more effective preparation courses. Teacher candidates (N=87) from three teacher preparation programs completed questionnaires during, or prior to, their first special education course. The findings indicate a relationship ...