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The Role of Mathematics Teachers’ Views for Their Competence of Analysing Classroom Situations

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Views and Beliefs in Mathematics Education

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When teachers analyse mathematics classrooms, it can be expected that they use their professional knowledge, including their instruction-related views. In the case of analysing classroom situations regarding the use of representations, prior research suggests interdependencies. Consequently, when assessing teachers’ competence of analysing, the role of teachers’ views should be taken into account so as to explore their potential role for the competence construct. This need for research is therefore addressed in this study. For a sample consisting of 31 in-service teachers, interdependencies between instruction-related views and the teachers’ analysis were examined by quantitative and qualitative analyses. The results indicate such interdependencies and give insight into possible reasons for these.

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This study is supported in the framework of the project EKoL supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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Kuntze, S., Friesen, M. (2018). The Role of Mathematics Teachers’ Views for Their Competence of Analysing Classroom Situations. In: Rott, B., Törner, G., Peters-Dasdemir, J., Möller, A., Safrudiannur (eds) Views and Beliefs in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01273-1_17

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