Exploring Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Interpretation of Student Thinking through Analysing Students’ Work in Modelling       
Yazarlar (5)
Prof. Dr. Makbule Gözde DİDİŞ KABAR Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Ayhan Kursat Erbas
Middle East Technical University (Metu), Türkiye
Bulent Cetinkaya
Middle East Technical University (Metu), Türkiye
Erdinc Cakiroglu
Middle East Technical University (Metu), Türkiye
Cengiz Alacaci
Istanbul Medeniyet University, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü ESCI dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Mathematics Education Research Journal
Dergi ISSN 1033-2170 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIC
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 09-2016
Cilt No 28
Sayı 3
Sayfalar 349 / 378
DOI Numarası 10.1007/s13394-016-0170-6
Makale Linki http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13394-016-0170-6
Özet
Researchers point out the importance of teachers’ knowledge of student thinking and the role of examining student work in various contexts to develop a knowledge base regarding students’ ways of thinking. This study investigated prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ interpretations of students’ thinking as manifested in students’ work that embodied solutions of mathematical modelling tasks. The data were collected from 25 prospective mathematics teachers enrolled in an undergraduate course through four 2-week-long cycles. Analysis of data revealed that the prospective teachers interpreted students’ thinking in four ways: describing, questioning, explaining, and comparing. Moreover, whereas some of the prospective teachers showed a tendency to increase their attention to the meaning of students’ ways of thinking more while they engaged in students’ work in depth over time and experience, some of them continued to focus on only judging the accuracy of students’ thinking. The implications of the findings for understanding and developing prospective teachers’ ways of interpreting students’ thinking are discussed.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Interpretations of students’ thinking | Mathematics education | Modelling | Prospective teachers | Students’ work