CAUSAL SEM OF MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCES IN TEACHER EDUCATION
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mathematical competences, structural equation model and causal modelAbstract
In this paper, authors defined mathematical competences in teacher education. The basic objective was to measure the mathematical competence or mathematical knowledge, skills and abilities in mathematical education. Mathematical competences were grouped in following areas: Basic mathematical competences, Arithmetic competences, Functions competences, Combinatory competences, Geometry competences. Statistical set for the research consisted of 80 students from the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Authors had 17 measuring variables together with the evaluated results of described tasks. With statistical set with variables as measured mathematical competences the authors make the causal structural equation model (SEM) of mathematical competences. The authors use free software Tetrad 5.2.1-3 (Tetrad project 2015). In the results we describe structural equations between the mathematical competitions for students in teacher education. This paper is a result of our previous research on causal modeling of mathematical competences in kindergarten (Tepeš at. all. 2013, 2014 and 2015) and in elementary education.Downloads
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