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标题：UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ MATHEMATICS ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS
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作者：Pavlin-Bernardić, Nina ; Vlahović-Štetić, Vesna ; Mišurac Zorica, Irena 等
期刊名称：Educational sciences
印刷版ISSN：1846-1204
出版年度：2010
卷号：12
期号：2 (20)
页码：385-397
出版社：Faculty of teacher education
摘要：According to Bandura’s Social learning theory, it is assumed that teachers are models for students’ attitudes and beliefs related to educational contents. The aim of this study was to examine mathematics attitudes and beliefs of junior class teachers and math teachers, as well as university students who will be junior class and math teachers. The participants were 79 university students and 78 teachers. Students were fourth year teacher education students from Split (N = 45) and math students from Zagreb (N = 34) and teachers were junior class teachers (N = 41) and math teachers (N = 37) from two elementary schools in Zagreb. All participants completed Mathematics attitudes and beliefs scale, while students also completed Mathematics anxiety scale. The results show that participants generally have positive attitudes toward math. Teachers have more positive attitudes towards math than university students. Teacher education students have less positive attitudes towards math than other groups of participants. Belief that math is more male than female domain was expressed very mildly and there were no differences between different groups of participants in this respect. Belief that mathematics abilities are inborn was also expressed very mildly, and there were no differences between different groups. Teacher education students, as we expected, are more afraid of math than math students.
关键词：math attitudes; math anxiety; students; math teachers