Teacher efficacy is largely unexplored in Trinidad and Tobago, resulting in a deficit in understanding of teachers' beliefs about their ability to teach. This is important since teachers' beliefs influence how they feel ...

Beliefs have been conceived as a hidden variable in mathematics education. It is important to know teachers’ beliefs as they can inform the way that teachers teach mathematics, make decisions in the classroom, and form ...

This paper presents some results of an investigation on the number sense of a group of pre-service secondary teachers from Spain. The objective of this research was to analyze students' use of strategies associated to ...

This study sought to investigate what pre-service and in-service trained teachers understand by differentiated instruction, and the extent to which they practised differentiating instruction in their classrooms. Three ...

This study examined the extent to which there were changes in pre-service teachers' beliefs, expectations and other teacher preparation issues over a four-year period at The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). The ...

This study investigated efficacy perceptions of untrained in-service Diploma in Education teachers. Two cohorts of students (2011/2012 and 2012/2013) were studied to determine whether there were differences in perceptions ...

We examine whether the expectations of pre-service elementary school teachers about students' achievement, and their beliefs regarding student need for academic support, are influenced by future teachers' mathematics anxiety ...

This chapter discusses the way that actions developed under a programme from the Brazilian government can contribute to the learning of teaching, by considering four pre-service mathematics teachers (undergraduate students), ...

In this research, a modified version of Rose and Medway's Teachers' Locus of Control (TLOC) instrument was used to investigate the relationship between a selected group of high school teachers' age, length of service, and ...