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  • Primary Teachers' Beliefs and Practices with Respect to Compulsory Numeracy Testing

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    Nisbet, Steven
    Grimbeek, Peter
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    Nisbet, Steven
    Grimbeek, Peter M.
    Year published
    2004
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    This paper reports the results of a factor analysis of data from a survey of teachers' beliefs and practices relating to the compulsory numeracy tests conducted in Years 3, 5 and 7. The resulting six factors related to giving feedback to students, using the tests for diagnosis of pupils and content, changes in teachers' practice, comparing results with other schools, test validity, and preparing pupils for the tests. Analysis of factor scores showed the significance of professional development in teachers' practices associated with the tests. School location and size also had an effect on teachers' beliefs and practices ...
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    This paper reports the results of a factor analysis of data from a survey of teachers' beliefs and practices relating to the compulsory numeracy tests conducted in Years 3, 5 and 7. The resulting six factors related to giving feedback to students, using the tests for diagnosis of pupils and content, changes in teachers' practice, comparing results with other schools, test validity, and preparing pupils for the tests. Analysis of factor scores showed the significance of professional development in teachers' practices associated with the tests. School location and size also had an effect on teachers' beliefs and practices associated with the tests.
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    Conference Title
    Mathematics Education for the Third Millennium: Towards 2010
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    http://merga.net.au/
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    © 2004 MERGA. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owners for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the authors.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/2002
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