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“Hopefully, I Will Gain Confidence”: Hope In Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematics And Numeracy Testing, Anat Wilson, Wendy Goff
“Hopefully, I Will Gain Confidence”: Hope In Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematics And Numeracy Testing, Anat Wilson, Wendy Goff
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
The recent introduction of a personal literacy and numeracy test (LANTITE) has been part of tighter accreditation of Initial Teacher Education programs across Australia. This article focuses on pre-service teachers’ experiences, beliefs and feelings about the new high-stakes testing regime. The data are drawn from a six-month project intended to evaluate students’ experience in a first-year university mathematics unit. The focus in the present article is on students’ responses to open-ended questions about their expectations of the unit, their level of confidence in areas of using and teaching mathematics and their thoughts and feelings about their own skill level …