Second-year pre-service teachers’ responses to proportional reasoning test items Livy, Sharyn and Herbert, Sandra 2013, Second-year pre-service teachers’ responses to proportional reasoning test items, Australian journal of teacher education, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 17-32. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads herbert-secondyear-2013.pdf Published version application/pdf 338.59KB 338 Title Second-year pre-service teachers’ responses to proportional reasoning test items Author(s) Livy, Sharyn Herbert, Sandra orcid.org/0000-0001-5990-5099 Journal name Australian journal of teacher education Volume number 38 Issue number 11 Start page 17 End page 32 Total pages 16 Publisher Edith Cowan University Place of publication Perth, Western Australia Publication date 2013-11 ISSN 1835-517X 0313-5373 Keyword(s) pre-service teacher education proportional reasoning mathematical content knowledge Summary A recent international study of pre-service teachers identified that proportional reasoning was problematic for pre-service teachers. Proportional reasoning is an important topic in the middle years of schooling and therefore it is critical that teachers understand this topic and can rely on their Mathematical Content Knowledge (MCK) when teaching. The focus of this paper is second-year Australian primary pre-service teachers’ MCK of real number items related to ratio, rate, proportion and proportional reasoning. This paper reports on strengths and weakness of pre-service teachers’ MCK when responding to test items; including a method suitable for analysing responses to five items and ranked by three levels of difficulty. The results revealed insights into their correct methods of solutions and common incorrect responses, identifying difficulty, where multiplication and division were required. The method of coding test items by difficulty ranking may assist with developing an appropriate learning trajectory, which will assist pre-service teachers develop their MCK of this and other difficult topics. Language eng Field of Research 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators Socio Economic Objective 930101 Learner and Learning Achievement HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2013 Copyright notice ©2013, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30056018 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version - open access Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 16 Sep 2013, 22:36:08 EST Mon, 16 Sep 2013, 22:37:10 EST Tue, 17 Sep 2013, 09:34:57 EST Wed, 02 Oct 2013, 10:33:21 EST Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 10:22:39 EST Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 10:23:29 EST Fri, 04 Oct 2013, 09:28:11 EST Fri, 04 Oct 2013, 14:45:21 EST Tue, 08 Oct 2013, 08:38:48 EST Tue, 08 Oct 2013, 08:42:39 EST Tue, 08 Oct 2013, 08:43:22 EST Wed, 23 Oct 2013, 13:16:10 EST Wed, 27 Nov 2013, 07:50:14 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 18:19:48 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 19:01:38 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 21:34:15 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:42:33 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:40:22 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 6 times in TR Web of Science Cited 9 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 584 Abstract Views, 378 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 16 Sep 2013, 22:36:07 EST by Sandra Herbert