Learning Environment: Process Criteria for Evaluating Teachers’ Participation in Mathematics Networked Learning Communities

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Learning Environments Poster Session

Abstract

We evaluated the effectiveness of teachers’ participation in a networked learning community in terms of the learning environments created by these teachers in their school mathematics classrooms, as well as their students’ attitudes. Data were collected from 375 Grade 5 students from five schools in Singapore. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design revealed that pre-post changes were larger in magnitude for the experimental group than for the comparison group for every learning environment and attitude scale. Teacher support and problem solving were significant independent predictors of student enjoyment for both pretest and posttest data.

Authors

• Cynthia Seto, Academy of Singapore Teachers

• Barry J. Fraser, Curtin University