Cognitive Activation in the Mathematics Classroom and Professional Competence of Teachers: Results from the COACTIV Project

(Mathematics Teacher Education, 8)

Mareike Kunter; Jürgen Baumert; Werner Blum; Uta Klusmann; Stefan Krauss; Michael Neubrand

Springer | 2013 |374  páginas | rar - pdf | 2,24 Mb

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This work reports the findings of the Professional Competence of Teachers, Cognitively Activating Instruction, and Development of Students´ Mathematical Literacy project (COACTIV). COACTIV applies a broad, innovative conceptualization of teacher competence to examine how mathematics teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, motivational orientations, and self-regulation skills influence their instructional practice and teaching outcomes In this project data was collected on various aspects of teacher competence and classroom instruction from the perspective of both the teachers themselves and their students. Moreover, it gauges the effects of these teacher characteristics on student learning, as indexed by the progress students in each class. Questions addressed in the study which are reported in this volume include: What are the characteristics of successful teaching? What distinguishes teachers who succeed in their profession? How can the quality of instruction be improved?

Contents
1 Professional Competence of Teachers, Cognitively Activating Instruction, and the Development of Students’ Mathematical Literacy (COACTIV): A Research Program ... 1
Jürgen Baumert, Mareike Kunter, Werner Blum, Uta Klusmann, Stefan Krauss, and Michael Neubrand
Part I Theoretical and Empirical Foundations
2 The COACTIV Model of Teachers’ Professional Competence ...... 25
Jürgen Baumert and Mareike Kunter
3 Teacher Education in Germany .... 49
Kai S. Cortina and Mark Hoover Thames
4 The Development of Teachers’ Professional Competence .... 63
Mareike Kunter, Thilo Kleickmann, Uta Klusmann, and Dirk Richter
5 The COACTIV Research Program: Methodological Framework ..... 79
Katrin Löwen, Jürgen Baumert, Mareike Kunter, Stefan Krauss, and Martin Brunner
6 The Model of Instructional Quality in COACTIV: A Multicriteria Analysis .... 97
Mareike Kunter and Thamar Voss
7 Task Analysis in COACTIV: Examining the Potential for Cognitive Activation in German Mathematics Classrooms ..... 125
Michael Neubrand, Alexander Jordan, Stefan Krauss, Werner Blum, and Katrin Löwen
Part II Aspects of Professional Competence
8 Mathematics Teachers’ Domain-Specifi c Professional Knowledge: Conceptualization and Test Construction in COACTIV ...... 147
Stefan Krauss, Werner Blum, Martin Brunner, Michael Neubrand, Jürgen Baumert, Mareike Kunter, Michael Besser, and Jürgen Elsner
9 The Effect of Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Instructional Quality and Student Achievement .. 175
Jürgen Baumert and Mareike Kunter
10 Teachers’ General Pedagogical/Psychological Knowledge .. 207
Thamar Voss and Mareike Kunter
11 The Diagnostic Skills of Mathematics Teachers ... 229
Martin Brunner, Yvonne Anders, Axinja Hachfeld, and Stefan Krauss
12 Mathematics Teachers’ Beliefs .... 249
Thamar Voss, Thilo Kleickmann, Mareike Kunter, and Axinja Hachfeld
13 Motivation as an Aspect of Professional Competence: Research Findings on Teacher Enthusiasm .... 273
Mareike Kunter
14 Occupational Self-Regulation ..... 291
Uta Klusmann
Part III The Development of Professional Competence
15 Individual Characteristics of Prospective Teachers ..... 311
Uta Klusmann
16 Learning at University ...... 321
Thilo Kleickmann and Yvonne Anders
17 Professional Development Across the Teaching Career .... 333
Dirk Richter
Part IV Discussion
18 The COACTIV Research Program on Teachers’ Professional Competence: Summary and Discussion .... 345
Mareike Kunter and Jürgen Baumert
19 Publications from the COACTIV Research Program (January 2013) ...... 369
Mareike Kunter, Jürgen Baumert, Werner Blum, Uta Klusmann, Stefan Krauss, and Michael Neubrand
Index ....... 375