2009
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-009-9192-2
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Community college students’ views on learning mathematics in terms of their epistemological beliefs: a Q method study

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the views of students enrolled at a small United States Midwestern community college toward learning mathematics, and to examine the relationship between student beliefs about mathematics learning and educational experiences with mathematics using Q methodology and open-ended response prompts. Schommer's (Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 495-504, 1990) multidimensional theory of personal epistemology provided the structural framework for the development of 36 doma… Show more

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“…The presence of adult students with heavy time constraints would appear as enough warrant to dispute the possibility that students can (or want to) engage in a mode of interaction that requires a radical break with their expectations about what college mathematics classrooms should look like. Research in other areas (e.g., Cox 2009) would give credence to the observation that community college students engage in learning practices that are at odds with the intention of creating autonomous learners (Wheeler and Montgomery 2009) and that it is difficult and unrewarding for instructors to alter those attitudes. Likewise, community college instructors are likely to indicate their lack of conviction that attempts to change the norms of classroom interaction would give the students the needed tools for succeeding in the following courses: They see their primary goal as one of helping students move along (and simultaneously to determine who is ready to do so and who must wait) in terms of what students know about the material, how competent they are, and how they can demonstrate the mastery of the content.…”
Section: Anticipating Justifications or Rejections For The Breachesmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…The presence of adult students with heavy time constraints would appear as enough warrant to dispute the possibility that students can (or want to) engage in a mode of interaction that requires a radical break with their expectations about what college mathematics classrooms should look like. Research in other areas (e.g., Cox 2009) would give credence to the observation that community college students engage in learning practices that are at odds with the intention of creating autonomous learners (Wheeler and Montgomery 2009) and that it is difficult and unrewarding for instructors to alter those attitudes. Likewise, community college instructors are likely to indicate their lack of conviction that attempts to change the norms of classroom interaction would give the students the needed tools for succeeding in the following courses: They see their primary goal as one of helping students move along (and simultaneously to determine who is ready to do so and who must wait) in terms of what students know about the material, how competent they are, and how they can demonstrate the mastery of the content.…”
Section: Anticipating Justifications or Rejections For The Breachesmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…The achievement scores are standardized a pG0.05, in one sample t test on whether the means of the five conceptions and the two approaches are significantly different from 3.00 (the average) The subconceptions identified (Table 1) are also consistent with the results of research on beliefs in mathematics education. "Confidence" is a highly emphasized concept in past studies on beliefs in mathematics education since mathematics is a salient school subject in which performance is attributed to innate ability (Burton, 2004;Wheeler & Montgomery, 2009;Whitebread & Chiu, 2004). The other subconceptions, i.e., interest, understanding, liberty, innovation, goals (application), perseverance, and anxiety, are also variables widely included in studies researching the belief systems of student learning mathematics in relation to mathematics teaching (Malmivuori, 2006;Schommer-Aikins, Duell, & Hutter, 2005;Sullivan, Tobias & McDonough, 2006).…”
Section: Consistency Between the Conceptions Of Learning Mathematics mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…6,10,11 Bu başlangıcı çok sayıda araştırmacının bilgiye ilişkin bireysel inançların motivasyon, akademik başarı, problem çözme, eğitim alanı seçimleri, öğ-renme stratejileri, bilişsel işlemleme, kavramsal öğ-renme gibi alanlardaki etkileri üzerine çalışmaları izlemiştir. [12][13][14][15][16][17] Başlangıçta "bilgi" ve "doğru"nun doğasına iliş-kin bireysel inançlara büyük ölçüde tek boyutlu bir yapı olarak bakılırken, Schommer epistemolojiye çok boyutlu bir bakış açısı getirmiştir. 9,16,18 Bireysel epistemolojiyi göreli olarak bağımsız inançlardan oluşan bir sistem olarak ele alan Schommer, epistemolojinin boyutlara bölünerek incelenebileceği gö-rüşünü ortaya koymuştur.…”
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“…[12][13][14][15][16][17] Başlangıçta "bilgi" ve "doğru"nun doğasına iliş-kin bireysel inançlara büyük ölçüde tek boyutlu bir yapı olarak bakılırken, Schommer epistemolojiye çok boyutlu bir bakış açısı getirmiştir. 9,16,18 Bireysel epistemolojiyi göreli olarak bağımsız inançlardan oluşan bir sistem olarak ele alan Schommer, epistemolojinin boyutlara bölünerek incelenebileceği gö-rüşünü ortaya koymuştur. Schommer epistemik inançlar için, bilgi edinmenin hızı, bilginin kesinliği, bilginin yapısı, bilginin kaynağı ve doğuştan yeteneklilik kavramlarını tanımlamış ve bu boyutları 12 alt boyuttaki 63 soru ile sorgulayan Epistemological Questionnaire (EQ), mevcut araştırmaların ço-ğunda kullanılmıştır.…”
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