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The book is made up of 21 chapters from 25 presentations at the
23rd MAVI conference in Essen, which featured Alan Schoenfeld as
keynote speaker. Of major interest to MAVI participants is the
relationship between teachers' professed beliefs and classroom
practice. The first section is dedicated to classroom practices and
beliefs regarding those practices, taking a look at prospective or
practicing teachers' views of different practices such as
decision-making, the roles of explanations, problem-solving,
patterning, and the use of play. The focus of the second section in
this book deals with teacher change, which is notoriously
difficult, even when the teachers themselves are interested in
changing their practice. The third section of this book centers on
the undercurrents of teaching and learning mathematics, what rises
in various situations, causing tensions and inconsistencies. The
last section of this book takes a look at emerging themes in
affect-related research. In this section, papers discuss attitudes
towards assessment.
The use of Likert scale instruments for measuring teachers' beliefs
is criticized because of amplifying social desirability, reducing
the willingness to make differentiations, and often providing less
or no contexts. Those weaknesses may distort teachers' responses to
a Likert scale instrument, causing inconsistencies between their
responses and their actions. Therefore, the author offers an
alternative approach by employing rank-then-rate items and
considering students' abilities as one of the factors affecting
teachers' beliefs. The results confirm that the offered approach
may give a better prediction about teachers' beliefs than does a
Likert scale instrument.
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