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Measuring Teachers’ Beliefs Quantitatively

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In this section, I will discuss the results of all preliminary and pilot studies. To remind readers, the main purpose of all conducted studies is to provide a ques-tionnaire for measuring teachers’ beliefs (for large samples of teachers) that al-lows nuanced responses reflecting the interplay between teachers’ beliefs and the social context at school on teachers’ practices, particularly for the Indonesian con-text.

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Safrudiannur (2020). General Discussion. In: Measuring Teachers’ Beliefs Quantitatively. Kölner Beiträge zur Didaktik der Mathematik. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30023-4_8

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