The aim of this quantitative survey study (N = 287) was to investigate the assessment conceptions three different pre-service teacher groups (classroom teachers, subject teachers and special needs teachers). Assessment were best described by following main factors: 1) learning, 2) for teaching learning 3) as a harmful action. These factors clustered into conception profiles – assessment-cautiou...

Research into learning and teaching in higher education over the last 25 years has provided a variety of concepts, methods, and findings that are of both theoretical interest and practical relevance. It has revealed the relationships between students’ approaches to studying, their conceptions of learning, and their perceptions of their academic context. It has revealed the relationships between...

This study aimed to examine the conceptions of junior secondary school student misbehaviors in classroom, and to identify the most common, disruptive, and unacceptable student problem behaviors from teachers' perspective. Twelve individual interviews with teachers were conducted. A list of 17 student problem behaviors was generated. Results showed that the most common and disruptive problem beh...

The present study aims to analyze students’ and teachers’ conceptions and misconceptions of average. A paper and pencil test has been designed, comprised of three questions, which was undertaken by 287 Brazilian students and teachers. They were: 54 pupils from the 4th grade, 47 from 5th grade, 61 students beginning undergraduation on Pedagogy, 82 students concluding undergraduation on Pedagogy ...

We present a student’s modelling process in algebra which consists of two phases. The first phase is a local diagnosis where a student’s transformation of an expression A into an expression B is diagnosed with a sequence of rewriting rules. A library of correct and incorrect rules has been built for that purpose. The second phase uses a lattice of conceptions built for modelling students more g...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] ASSESSING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS CONCEPTIONS OF RANDOMNESS

Although the importance of reading in higher education as an index of success has been highlighted, the metacognitive knowledge or beliefs of graduate students have remained under-researched. This qualitative study reports on a study that, first, examines how graduate students of applied linguistics conceive of academic reading and academic readers in their graduate programs; second, wh...

The paper presents results of a study conducted to measure perceptions of teachers about their 3rd grade students’ information literacy (IL) skills. The IL standards given by the California School Library Association for 2nd graders were provided to 54 teachers from three private schools of Lahore city of Pakistan to get their opinion. Selected through purposive sampling methods, the respondent...

By using an original framework involving complementary statistical approaches, we investigated the environmental attitudes of 6,379 pre-service and in-service teachers in 16 countries of Europe and its neighbourhood. To test hypotheses about the nature of environmental attitudes, we examined the variation across groups of individuals (between-class analysis), investigated the independent effect...

Given the focus on developing highly-qualified teachers to improve education (National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, 2003), teacher education programs face increasing responsibility to prepare new teachers who can effectively enhance learning in all students. Standards and assessment criteria developed by national organizations in the United States address the qualifications of b...