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“The best ever”: mathematics teachers’ perceptions of quality professional learning

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 15:18 authored by Kim Beswick, Sharon FraserSharon Fraser, Crowley, S

This paper reports on the responses of 109 Australian mathematics teachers to an online questionnaire designed to identify their perceptions of the characteristics of quality professional learning (PL). They were asked to consider the best PL that they had ever undertaken, rate possible contributors to its quality on 5-point Likert type scales, select five features of quality PL that most contributed to the PL being the best they had experienced, and nominate any other factors that they believed contributed to it being the best ever. Teachers most valued PL that they considered to contribute to improved teaching and improved student learning. Nevertheless, the PL nominated was not necessarily characterised by all of the widely accepted features of effective PL. Implications for the conceptualisation of quality PL are discussed.

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Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources

History

Publication title

Proceedings of the 41st Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

Editors

B Kaur, WK Ho, TL, Toh, and BH Choy

Pagination

169-176

ISBN

9789811137426

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Welon Printing Co. Pte Ltd

Place of publication

Singapore

Event title

The 41st Psychology of Mathematics Education Annual Conference

Event Venue

Singapore

Date of Event (Start Date)

2017-07-17

Date of Event (End Date)

2017-07-22

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Coyright unknown

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Professional development and adult education; Teacher and instructor development

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