Considering Teachers’ Beliefs, Motivation, and Emotions Regarding Teaching Mathematics With Digital Tools: The Effect of an In-Service Teacher Training

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Mathematics teachers’ motivational and emotional orientations regarding digital tools in mathematics classrooms are key aspects influencing whether and how technology is used to teach mathematics—making the support of those characteristics one central goal for teacher education. In this article we investigated if and how a workshop-based in-service teacher training can foster teachers’ perceived value of digital media in mathematics education, their self-efficacy, and their anxiety towards teaching mathematics with digital tools. In an intervention study with N = 83 in-service teachers with varying teaching experience, we used cluster analysis based on their experience, value, self-efficacy, and anxiety before the intervention to determine three different teacher orientations regarding teaching mathematics with digital tools. Paired sample t-tests with pretest and posttest data revealed that for two of three clusters these beliefs, motivation, and emotions changed in a positive way during the intervention while for the third no change was found. Our study sheds light on the role of motivational and emotional orientations for the implementation of digital tools in mathematics education: it shows that these orientations can be utilized to cluster teachers on this topic and illustrates that these orientations can be successfully fostered—while individual differences may exist in the effect and success of interventions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number723869
JournalFrontiers in Education
Volume6
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 06.10.2021

Bibliographical note

This work is part of a cooperation between the TUM School of Education (Germany), the Secretaría de Educación de Medellín (Colombia), and the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). It was funded by the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation, the Siemens Foundation, and the Deutsches Museum. The open-access publication was funded within a Scholarship for postdoctoral researchers by the Daimler and Benz Foundation given to FR. The funding authorities did not provide support for the preparation of the article, in study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the article for publication.

Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Reinhold, Strohmaier, Finger-Collazos and Reiss.

    Research areas

  • anxiety, fractions, media in education, self-efficacy, teacher education, teacher professional competence, value
  • Educational science

Documents

DOI

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Performance Saga: Interview 06
  2. The relation of flow-experience and physiological arousal under stress - can u shape it?
  3. Responsibility and environment
  4. Spectral Kinetic Simulation of the Ideal Multipole Resonance Probe
  5. Construal level theory
  6. A Transatlantic Symposium on the Restatement (Fourth)
  7. Optimising patterns of life conduct
  8. Time-varying persistence in real oil prices and its determinant
  9. Development and characterisation of a new interface for coupling capillary LC with collision-cell ICPMS and its application for phosphorylation profiling of tryptic protein digests
  10. A hybrid hydraulic piezo actuator modeling and hysteresis effect identification for control in camless internal combustion engines
  11. Exploring the uncanny valley effect in affective social robotics
  12. CAN BUSINESS MODEL COMPONENTS EXPLAIN DIGITAL START-UP SUCCESS?
  13. Sliding Mode Control for a Vertical Dynamics in the Presence of Nonlinear Friction
  14. Release of monomers from four different composite materials after halogen and LED curing
  15. System and action theory
  16. Paired case research design and mixed-methods approach
  17. Schreibt Ihr Unternehmen auch "grüne" Zahlen?
  18. Mapping the vegetation of southern mongolian protected areas: application of GIS and remote sensing techniques
  19. How many organic compounds are graph-theoretically nonplanar?
  20. Survey Response and Observed Behavior
  21. Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability
  22. On the optimal design of insurance contracts with guarantees
  23. Sustainability Science with Ozzy Osbourne, Julia Roberts and Ai Weiwei
  24. Multiobjective optimal control of fluid mixing
  25. Sustainable Development
  26. Transformation products in the water cycle and the unsolved problem of their proactive assessment
  27. Rethinking the Spatiality of Spatial Planning
  28. Application of Software and Web-Based Tools for Sustainability Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
  29. Investigating quality raters' performance using interface evaluation methods
  30. Co-production of nature's contributions to people
  31. The Mobile Phone: From an Instrument of Microcoordination to a Universal Control Device
  32. Circular and inclusive utilization of alternative proteins
  33. A Conceptual Structure of Justice - Providing a Tool to Analyse Conceptions of Justice
  34. Reference wages and turnover intentions