Exploring the Mathematical Education of Teachers Using TEDS-M Data, 1st ed. 2018

This book uses the publicly available TEDS-M data to answer such questions as: How does teacher education contribute to the learning outcomes of future teachers? Are there programs that are more successful than others in helping teachers learn to teach mathematics? How does the local and national policy environment contribute to teacher education outcomes? It invites readers to explore these questions across a large number of international settings.

The study collected data on teacher education programs structure, curriculum and opportunities to learn, on teacher educators? characteristics and beliefs, and on future mathematics teachers? individual characteristics, beliefs, and mathematics and pedagogical knowledge across 17 countries providing a unique opportunity to explore enduring questions in the field.

1. Introduction: Exploring the Mathematical Education of Teachers Using TEDS-M Data; Maria Teresa Tatto.- PART 1: Exploring Different Dimensions of Teacher Education Programs.- 2.  Introduction Part 1: Exploring Different Dimensions of Teacher Education Programs in the TEDS-M Study; Maria Teresa Tatto and Wendy Smith.- 3. Preparing High Quality Mathematics Primary Teachers: Exploring Program Strategies and Standards in the United States, Russia, Poland, and Chinese Taipei; Yadira Peralta and Maria Teresa Tatto.- 4. The Intended, Implemented, and Achieved Curriculum of Mathematics Teacher Education in the United States; Maria Teresa Tatto and Kiril Bankov.- 5. Developing Diverse Teachers: Analyzing Primary Mathematics Teacher Education Programs Prioritizing Selection of Diverse Candidates in Four Countries; James Pippin.- 6. A Comparative International Study of Differences in Beliefs Between Future Teachers and their Educators; Michael C. Rodriguez, Maria Teresa Tatto, Jose Palma and Kyle Nickodem.- PART 2: Exploring Future Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn.- 7.  Introduction Part 2:  Exploring Future Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn in the TEDS-M Study; Maria Teresa Tatto and Wendy Smith.- 8. The Mathematical Education of Primary Teachers; Maria Teresa Tatto.- 9. How Elementary Teaching Candidates’ Knowledge is Shaped by Teacher Preparation; Hong Qian and Peter Youngs.- 10. Opportunities to Learn Mathematics Pedagogy and Connect Classroom Learning to Practice: A Study of Preservice Teachers in the United States and Singapore; Traci Shizu Kutaka, Wendy Smith and Lorraine M. Males.- 11. Preparing Primary Mathematics Teachers to Learn to Work with Students from Diverse Backgrounds; Elizabeth Dyer.- 12. Differences in Beliefs and Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics: An International Study of Future Teachers; Traci Shizu Kutaka, Wendy Smith and Anthony Albano.- 13. Preservice Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Learning Mathematics Instruction and Relationships to Knowledge; Rachel Ayieko.- 14. The Mathematical Education of Secondary Teachers; Maria Teresa Tatto.- 15. An International Study of the Relationship between Learning to Teach Students from Diverse Backgrounds and Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in Pre-Service Secondary Mathematics Teachers; Elizabeth Dyer.- PART 3: Methodological Challenges and Strategies.- 16. Introduction Part 3: Methodological Challenges and Strategies in the TEDS-M Study; Maria Teresa Tatto and Wendy Smith.- 17. Sampling for TEDS-M; Sabine Meinck and Jean Dumais.- 18. Developing Anchor Points to Enhance the Meaning of the Mathematical and Mathematical Pedagogical Score Scales from the TEDS-M Study; Mark Reckase.- 19. Examining Sources of Gender DIF in Mathematics Knowledge of Future Teachers Using Cross-Classified IRT Models; Liuhan Cai, and Anthony D. Albano.- 20. Standing the Test of Time: Validating the TEDS-M Knowledge Assessment against MET II Expectations; Edward A. Silver and Jillian P. Mortimer.

Maria Teresa Tatto is the Southwest borderlands professor of comparative education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and professor in the division of educational leadership and innovation at ASU. She received her doctoral degree in policy analysis and evaluation research in education from Harvard University. Her scholarship is characterized by its use of international comparative frameworks to study education policy and its impact on education systems. She has published extensively on areas such as the structure and impact of different approaches to educating teachers, the relationships between teaching and learning, the influence of early childhood education on improved knowledge levels for the rural poor and children of underserved populations, the role of values education on citizenship formation, and the development of effective policies to support the education of children of migrant workers in the U.S. among others.

Professor Tatto is the principal investigator for the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDSM), and for the First Five Years of Mathematics Teaching Study (FIRSTMATH), both NSF-funded and designed to explore the connections between mathematics pre-service preparation and what is learned on-the-job during the first years of teaching. She has done research in collaboration with scholars in several countries including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and Latin America. Her work combines the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches and methods in the social sciences. Professor Tatto is studying the characteristics and outcomes of teacher preparation across different national contexts, and the types of evidence that are used at the macro (system) and micro (institutions) levels to make decisions that shape the initial preparation and continued development of teachers. The latter study is sponsored by the World Education Research Association and is a collaboration of colleagues across 12 countries. She is additi

Contains further exploration of the TEDS-M study data at a time when teacher education in STEM areas is gaining importance worldwide

Provides examples on how to use the publicly available TEDS-M database to further explore enduring questions in teacher knowledge

Makes available a common terminology, sampling methods, instruments and analyses for future rigorous national and cross-national research in teacher education

Foreword by Jeremy Kilpatrick