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University of Southern Queensland · School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood

Purpose This study aims to investigate the alignment of initial teacher education (ITE) courses with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs), drawing on Shulman’s (1986) categories of teacher competencies for teaching and Grossman’s (1990) model for sources of teacher competencies. Design/methodology/approach The study was condu...

Purpose: This study investigates the knowledge gaps of primary pre-service teachers (PSTs) in designing numeracy-rich tasks (NRTs) that incorporate real-life contexts across non-mathematics curriculum areas. It aims to understand the PSTs' competencies and the specific areas where they require further professional development. Design/methodology/...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), including intelligent machines, are opening new possibilities to support teaching and learning in higher education. This research has found a ‘proof of concept’ in the application of machine learning in the assessment of educators’ use of four key microskills, drawn from an internationally established frame...

This study examined how opportunities to incorporate numeracy across different primary curriculum areas and grade levels are highlighted in the Australian Curriculum v9.0. A document analysis approach was used to track the numeracy opportunities in the document across different curriculum areas and grade levels. The results showed that Science has...

This study explores the relationship between pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) early experiences and their current views on mathematics. The data were collected through an online survey from 107 PSTs and were analysed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Chi-square test. Study results suggest that PSTs’ early mathematics experiences relate to thei...

Making sense of student feedback and engagement is important for informing pedagogical decision-making and broader strategies related to student retention and success in higher education courses. Although learning analytics and other strategies are employed within courses to understand student engagement, the interpretation of data for larger data...

Digital technology literacy, attitude, efficacy, and online engagement are important for effective teaching in a contemporary world. This study examines the connections between pre-service teachers' (PST) self-assessed digital technology literacy, attitudes, self-efficacy, and engagement in online learning. It also explores how these aspects relate...

This study compared the problem-solving abilities of ChatGPT and 58 pre-service teachers (PSTs) in solving a mathematical word problem using various strategies. PSTs were asked to solve a problem individually. Data was collected from PSTs’ submitted assignments, and their problem-solving strategies were analyzed. ChatGPT was also given the same pro...

This study utilised students' online engagement, digital technology attitude, digital literacy, and self-efficacy theories to develop and test a model connecting these factors within a regional university in Australia. A field survey collected data from 110 first-year students. AMOS 28 was employed for measurement and structural model path analysis...

Ensuring quality education for all students requires teachers to possess knowledge and skills in utilising digital technologies effectively for teaching and learning. This study explored how pre-service teachers (PSTs) perceive their digital attitude, efficacy, literacy, engagement, and understanding of digital technologies in an online learning en...

Describing and analyzing teaching practice has been a focus of researchers interested in the interaction and connections between teachers’ content knowledge and their pedagogical knowledge. This study described the role of a teacher’s mathematical content and pedagogical content knowledge in involving students in learning and solving Science, Techn...

This study reports part of a larger study that explores three technologies-Padlet, Panopto videos and Google Docs-and their effectiveness in enhancing university students' engagement in online learning. The current paper explores the role of interactive quizzes embedded in recorded lectures in enhancing student engagement in higher education focuse...

Video conferencing is an effective tool that promotes interaction and collaboration, increasing student engagement in online learning. This study is the second phase of design-based research to create a tool to generate a report of engaging teaching videos using deep learning as an artificial intelligence (AI) methodology. In this second phase, the...

Students’ prior achievements in school have significant correlations with their later achievements. Specifically, students’ prior numeracy achievement is the most important predictor of later numeracy success. However, the assessment of this predictor across gender and its trend across students’ year levels is often overlooked or not adequately inv...

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a nationwide testing program for literacy and numeracy in Australia. Several studies explored and used NAPLAN numeracy test results as a source of valuable data and a potential means to improve education. This paper presents a systematic literature review to investigate the use of...

Informed by teaching statistics across curriculum areas strategies, this study investigated the skills of 36 pre-service teachers (PSTs) who designed numeracy activities that focused on the statistics strand of the Australian curriculum. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that the PSTs designed numeracy activiti...

Online learning is in high demand due to benefits such as convenience, flexibility, cost efficiency, and improved accessibility. In online learning, video conferencing is an effective technology for collaboration and increasing online student engagement. This study is part of a larger study conducted using design-based research (DBR) to develop a v...

This study reports part of a larger study that explores three technologies-Padlet, Panopto videos and Google Docs and their effectiveness in enhancing university students' engagement in online learning. The current paper analysis university students' behavioural engagement with recorded lecture videos uploaded in Panopto. Panopto video analytics wa...

This case study aims to describe the learning characteristics of a child and evaluate his preferences for using physical manipulatives (PM) and virtual manipulatives (VM) to solve fraction problems. The participant in this study was a fourth-grade child. The child was given similar problems to solve using PM and VM. Data sources were observations a...

This study reports part of a larger study that explores three technologies—Padlet, video-embedded quizzes and Google docs and their effectiveness for enhancing pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) learning engagement in online mathematics education. The data reported in this study are a survey, learning analytics and observation data. We found that Padlet...

There is a consensus that numeracy is important for students to develop logical thinking and reasoning strategies in their everyday activities. As a result, teachers are encouraged to design numeracy rich tasks that incorporate real-life contexts across non-mathematics curriculum areas. However, it is not clear what types of knowledge teachers requ...

In this study, we examine children’s National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) achievement predictors, which may enable or limit their numeracy performance and assess the relative importance of the predictor variables. Our data source was the NAPLAN numeracy results of Queensland schools from 2014 to 2017. Years 3 and 5 children’s...

This paper presents a classroom behavior management skills classification system based on machine learning to assist teachers to develop their classroom behavior management skills through guided reflection. Such a system would enable more cost-effective application of demonstrably successful approaches to having expert observers identify suggestibl...

The present study demonstrated the importance and procedures of learners and learning context analysis to design a context-driven professional development program to effectively use of technology in mathematics classrooms. The study was conducted at departments of mathematics in two Colleges of Teacher Education using a combination of qualitative a...

Background: A key aim of educational research is for findings to inform practice, thereby bringing about improvements in teaching and learning. However, the relationship between research and practice is complex, and there is often no clear link between changes in practice and research findings. One of the challenges for research and practice is bre...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The figures in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 are misplaced. The figure in Fig. 3 is “An example of representing the measure construct of fraction.

Fractions are perceived as one of the most difficult areas in school mathematics to learn and teach. The most frequently mentioned factors contributing to the complexity are fractions having five interrelated constructs (part-whole, ratio, operator, quotient and measure) and teachers’ pedagogical approaches to address these constructs. The present...

Rowland’s Knowledge Quartet (KQ) model can provide illuminating insights into teacher practice in mathematics classrooms. This paper explores a framework developed for pedagogical technology knowledge (TPACK) to consider teacher practice in integrated technology classrooms alongside the KQ model. Observations of a Year 11 class in an Australian sch...

Technology-enhanced feedback to students comes in many forms now that technology has become immersed in all aspects of the educational process. Higher education institutions are criticized by students for the poor feedback practice (Boud and Molloy 2013), yet they, like other educational organizations, have access to video-enhanced feedback through...

This entry describes the characteristics of professional development programs (PD) to enhance teacher educators’ (teachers of pre-service teachers) knowledge of technology-integrated teaching which subsequently facilitates their effective use of technology in the teaching in initial teacher education institutions. There are challenges with using te...

Considered by many as a source of valuable data and a potential to improve mathematics education, a significant amount of studies have been conducted on The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test results. This study is a systematic literature review of 86 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2008 and 2017 to i...

Using the concept of a developmental lens (Brighton, 2007; Caskey & Anfara, 2014; Davis, 2006; J-F, Pullen, & Carroll, 2013; National Middle School Association, 2010; Peterson, 2010), this article focuses on young teenage students’ perceptions of teachers. School teachers play an important role in the educational development of teenagers but little...

The findings presented here are part of a larger study, which documented the design, development and refinement of a professional development program to improve teacher educators’ effective use of technology to teach mathematics. This paper describes the use of free software to teach the area of a unit circle and then estimate the decimal value of...

The technological pedagogical content knowledge framework is increasingly in use by educational technology researcher as a generic description of the knowledge requirements for teachers using technology in all subjects. This study describes the development of a mathematics specific variety of the technological pedagogical content knowledge framewor...

The concept of fractions is perceived as one of the most difficult areas in school mathematics to learn and teach. The most frequently mentioned factors contributing to the complexity is fractions having five interrelated constructs: part-whole, ratio, operator, quotient, and measure. In this study, we used this framework to investigate the practic...

Aim/Purpose: We show a new dimension to the process of using design-based research approach in doctoral dissertations. Background: Design-based research is a long-term and concentrated approach to educational inquiry. It is often a recommendation that doctoral students should not attempt to adopt this approach for their doctoral dissertations. In...

Aim/Purpose: This paper considers the role of supervisors’ discipline expertise in doctoral learning from a student perspective. Background: Doctoral students need to develop expertise in a particular field of study. In this context, developing expertise requires doctoral students to master disciplinary knowledge, conventions and scholarship under...

This chapter describes how an Educational Design Research (EDR) approach was employed to design a context based professional development (PD) program tested in practice to support teacher educators to integrate ICT in their teaching of pre-service primary school mathematics teachers in Ethiopia. In addition, the researchers’ experience of using EDR...

This chapter describes how an Educational Design Research (EDR) approach was employed to design a context based professional development (PD) program tested in practice to support teacher educators to integrate ICT in their teaching of pre-service primary school mathematics teachers in Ethiopia.

This study investigates doctoral students' beliefs and experiences on the support they received from their supervisors in an Australian University. To this end, 25 doctoral students in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania participated in this study. Data were collected through an online survey and follow up interviews. The survey...

This paper explores school dropout and its association with youth crime in Bhutan. The aim was to discover whether students who drop out of school engage in antisocial or criminal behaviours. A total of 158 participants, who dropped out of school, completed a self-designed 14-point questionnaire. The study involved students who dropped out of schoo...

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework is increasingly in use by educational technology researchers. The framework provides a generic description of the knowledge requirements for teachers using technology in all subjects. This paper describes the development of a mathematics specific version of the TPACK framework. We sh...

Within the school context teachers play an important role in the development of teenagers but little is known in terms of how developmental domains/needs (i.e., social, emotional, physical and cognitive) are involuntarily catered by teachers from the perspectives of teenagers. In an effort to capture how developmental domains are being catered by t...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS) practices with young children from birth to eight years is an emerging area in academic and professional literature. ECEfS practices reflect growing awareness of the imperative for twenty-first century societies to respond to the pressures of unsustainable patterns of living. T...

This paper describes the use of the free software, to teach graphs of logarithmic functions at an Ethiopian College of Teacher Education. Data comprised two video-recorded lessons and interview data provided by a mathematics teacher educator, and three primary school mathematics pre-service teachers who were in the class of learners. Pre-service te...

This study describes the importance of context analysis in designing professional development guidelines to support mathematics teacher educators to integrate technology in their teaching. The study was conducted at departments of mathematics in two Colleges of Teacher Education using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. Sixteen math...

In Ethiopia, primary school teachers of science and mathematics are encouraged to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into their teaching as a means to improve the quality of education. However, there has not been the same emphasis placed on providing professional learning opportunities for teachers on how to use ICT in their t...

In recent times, Australia has recognised and enacted a range of initiatives at service, system and community levels that seek to embed sustainability into the early childhood sector. This paper explores the impact of a professional development (PD) session that provided opportunities for early childhood educators to learn and share ideas about the...

In recent times, Australia has recognised and enacted a range of initiatives at service, system and community levels that seek to embed sustainability into the early childhood sector. This paper explores the impact of a professional development (PD) session that provided opportunities for early childhood educators to learn and share ideas about the...

This study describes the construction of a questionnaire instrument to measure mathematics teacher educators' knowledge for technology integrated mathematics teaching. The study was founded on a reconceptualisation of the generic Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework in the specific context of mathematics teaching. Steps in the deve...

This article addresses the adoption of Standards‐based professional development (PD) in contemporary Australian education, through consideration of three different areas of professional practice: mathematics teaching, early childhood education and care (ECEC), and school leaders’ legal literacy. The article sets out the policy basis for Standards‐b...

This study examines beliefs held by mathematics teacher educators and pre‐service teachers about the usefulness and teacher educators’ belief on ease of use of computers in teaching in an Ethiopian teacher education University. It also identifies teacher educators’ actual practices in using computers in teaching. The study used questionnaires and s...

Increasingly, institutions of higher education recognise the importance of education spaces in supporting student engagement and participation with learning. This focus on education spaces is seen to be all the more important with the changes to the conceptions of learning as well as with the move to blended modes of delivery. This paper reports fi...