Preparatory Assignment
By Ipek SARALAR
Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Experience with GeoGebra 2-D & 3-D
* National Research Council, 1996: “Teachers are the most significant factor which effects learning of the students with their teaching.”
* Schoenfeld, 1998: "Beliefs and goals, are important cognitive factors that may help to shape the perception of teachers concerning their instructional practice and the role of technology used; along with knowledge, beliefs and goals may well be critically important determinants of what teachers do and why they do it."
* Thomson, 1984: "Teachers’ beliefs about how mathematics should be learned, appeared to influence how they taught it, irrespective of their expressed beliefs about their personal instructional practice."
Research Questions
Context
* I am planning to conduct semi-structured interviews with the middle school mathematics teachers. --with interview questions asking about: technological problems they faced/experienced, their personal motivation to continue using GeoGebra--
* I also would like to attend some of their classroom sessions in which they will use GeoGebra. I will observe them during their teaching and I will take field notes. If possible, I will videotape their lesson implementations.
Educational Technology
GeoGebra in Mathematics Education
* The aim of the current study is to investigate middle school teachers' experiences with GeoGebra, their purposes to use this software, their goals and beliefs on GeoGebra.
Ipek SARALAR
Educational Technology Research Methods
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