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LEMA – Professional Development of Teachers in Relation to Mathematical Modelling

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Trends in Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling

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LEMA was an international project which aimed at designing a professional development course for modelling. Materials for professional development which were to be used in different national contexts were designed, piloted and evaluated. In this chapter, we present the overall framework of the project and its evaluation by outlining the theoretical background, the design of the professional development course, the design of the evaluation, and summative results. In brief, the summative results of the evaluation showed that the professional development course had no effect on teachers’ beliefs but a strong positive effect on their pedagogical content knowledge and self-efficacy in terms of modelling, as well as a high degree of satisfaction among participants regarding their professional development.

The material for the professional development course is freely available at www.lema-project.org (in the six partner languages). If you want to use it, please refer to LEMA. Please also send a brief e-mail to katja.maass@ph-freiburg.de to acknowledge the use of the materials.

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    Partners of LEMA: Katja Maaß (Coordinator) University of Education Freiburg, Geoff Wake, University of Manchester, Fco. Javier Garcia Garcia, University of Jaen, Nicholas Mousoulides, University of Cyprus, Ödon Vancso & Gabriella Ambrus, Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest, Anke Wagner, University of Education Ludwigsburg, Richard Cabassut, IUFM Strasbourg. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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  1. University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Katja Maaß

  2. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  1. FB Erziehungswissenschaft, Inst. Didaktik der Mathematik, Universität Hamburg, Von Melle Park 8, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Gabriele Kaiser

  2. Abt. Mathematik/Informatik, Universität Kassel, Kassel, 34109, Germany

    Werner Blum

  3. University of Hamburg, Germany, Doscherstrasse 1, Hamburg, 22083, Germany

    Rita Borromeo Ferri

  4. University of Melbourne, Australia, 23 Grampian Street, Victoria, 3072, Australia

    Gloria Stillman

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Maaß, K., Gurlitt, J. (2011). LEMA – Professional Development of Teachers in Relation to Mathematical Modelling. In: Kaiser, G., Blum, W., Borromeo Ferri, R., Stillman, G. (eds) Trends in Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling. International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0910-2_60

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