The effect of a professional development program workshop about problem solving on mathematics teachers' ideas about the nature of mathematics, achievements in mathematics, and learning in mathematics
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The effect of a professional development program workshop about problem solving on mathematics teachers' ideas about the nature of mathematics, achievements in mathematics, and learning in mathematics
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Results are presented about the effect of a professional development workshop (hereinafter PDW) for mathematics teachers regarding their beliefs about mathematics (N=82). The workshop, titled RPAula, was aimed at primary school teachers and it focused on problem solving (hereinafter PS). The teachers beliefs under study are related to the nature of mathematics, the learning of mathematics and achievement in mathematics, as well as to the type of practices, experiences, and assessments of the importance of PS and the use of PS in the classroom.
The results showed that by participating in the PDW, teachers weakened their ideas about mathematics being a rigid, structured and eminently formal process. Likewise, participation in the PDW also lessened teachers' perceptions of their leading roles during the learning process, increasing their appraisal of PS practices that are student-centered. It was also noted that teachers' perception that access to mathematics learning is a fixed condition or an unalterable fact associated with students' innate abilities, gender or ethnic stereotypes, also diminished. In addition, teachers reported improvements in their self-perception of competence and self-efficacy to implement PS in the classroom with their students. These findings and their implications for mathematics learning and teaching are discussed in this article. Se presentan los resultados de un taller de desarrollo profesional (PDW) para maestros de
matemáticas sobre sus creencias sobre matemáticas (N = 82). El taller, titulado RPAula, estuvo dirigido
a profesores de primaria y se centró en la resolución de problemas (en adelante PS). Las creencias de
los profesores en el estudio están relacionadas con la naturaleza de las matemáticas, el aprendizaje de
las matemáticas y los logros en matemáticas, así como con el tipo de prácticas, experiencias y
evaluaciones de la importancia del PS y el uso del PS en el aula. Los resultados mostraron que al
participar en la PDW, los maestros debilitaron sus ideas acerca de que las matemáticas fueran un
proceso rígido, estructurado y eminentemente formal. Asimismo, la participación en la PDW también disminuyó la percepción de los maestros sobre sus roles de liderazgo durante el proceso de aprendizaje,
incrementando su valoración de las prácticas de PS centradas en los estudiantes. También se observó
que disminuyó la percepción de los profesores de que el acceso al aprendizaje de las matemáticas es
una condición fija o un hecho inalterable asociado con las habilidades innatas de los estudiantes, el
género o los estereotipos étnicos. Además, los maestros reportaron mejoras en su autopercepción de
competencia y autoeficacia para implementar PS en el aula con sus alumnos. Se discuten estos
hallazgos y sus implicaciones para el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de matemáticas y la enseñanza.
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FONDEF project
ID14I10338
Program of Basal Financing from the Government of Chile
PFB 0003
CONICYT-PCHA/National PhD scholarship
21130684
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3140597
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Psychology, Society, & Education, 2017. Vol. 9(1), pp. 11-26
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