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Evaluation of a Questionnaire for Studying Teachers’ Beliefs on Their Practice (TBTP)

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We developed a beliefs questionnaire named TBTP that allows us to investigate the possible influence of not only beliefs about mathematics but also beliefs about students’ math abilities on teachers’ actions in teaching mathematics and problem solving. The purpose of this study is to evaluate its reliability and validity. In this study, 43 teachers responded to the TBTP. The evaluation shows that the TBTP is reliable and valid since the analyses of the data confirm our hypotheses: teachers’ responses show that they differentiate their style of teaching because of their students’ math abilities and there is a correlation between teachers’ beliefs about mathematics and their responses about their practice of mathematics and problem-solving.

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  1. Mulawarman University, Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Safrudiannur

  2. University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

    Safrudiannur & Benjamin Rott

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  1. Institute of Mathematics Education, University of Cologne, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Benjamin Rott

  2. Faculty of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Günter Törner

  3. Faculty of Mathematics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Joyce Peters-Dasdemir

  4. Faculty of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Anne Möller

  5. Institute of Mathematics Education, University of Cologne, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Safrudiannur

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Table 19.5 All notes in the TBTP
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Safrudiannur, Rott, B. (2018). Evaluation of a Questionnaire for Studying Teachers’ Beliefs on Their Practice (TBTP). 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_19

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