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Teacher Education  \n\n| Volume 43 | Issue 1 | Article 6 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2018\u003Cbr>An Investigation of Preservice Teachers’Beliefs about the Certainty of Teaching Knowledge\u003Cbr>Leila E. Ferguson\u003Cbr>Kristiania University College, [leila.ferguson@kristiania.no](leila.ferguson@kristiania.no)\u003Cbr>JoLunn Brownlee\u003Cbr>Queensland Univeristy of Technology, [j.brownlee@qut.edu.au](j.brownlee@qut.edu.au) |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nFerguson, L. E., & Lunn Brownlee, J. (). An Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about the Certainty of Teaching Knowledge. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 43 (1).  \nRetrieved from [http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol43/iss1/6](http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol43/iss1/6)  \nThis Journal Article is posted at Research Online.  \n[http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol43/iss1/6](http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol43/iss1/6)  \nAustralian Journal of Teacher Education  \nAn Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About the Certainty of  \nTeaching Knowledge  \nLeila E. Ferguson  \nKristiania University College, Oslo, Norway  \nJo Lunn Brownlee  \nQueensland University of Technology  \nAbstract: Beliefs about the certainty of teaching knowledge may  \ninfluence how preservice teachers engage with and learn from  \nknowledge sources in teacher education, and their subsequent  \npractice. In light of inconsistencies in prior findings that mainly  \nemploy epistemic questionnaires, we extended research focusing on a  \ncontextual analysis. Sixty-six elementary and lower-secondary  \npreservice teachers in Norway responded to the Beliefs about the  \nCertainty of Teaching Knowledge (BECK) scale in the first and  \nsecond year of study, respectively. Participants believed knowledge  \nabout teaching and learning was more tentative and evolving at T2  \nthan at T1 (t (65) = 2.0, p = .049, Cohen’s d =.23). We uncovered  \nbeliefs about the ways knowledge and practice will change, reasons  \nfor change, and the rate of change in teaching knowledge. The results suggest preservice teachers hold specific beliefs about the certainty of  \nteaching knowledge that should be addressed by teacher educators.  \nIntroduction  \nThe beliefs preservice teachers hold about knowledge and knowing (epistemic beliefs) play a role in their learning and engagement throughout their teacher education programmes (Brownlee, Schraw & Berthelsen, 2011; Ravindran, Greene, & Debacker, 2005) . For example, epistemic beliefs influence preservice teachers ’ ability to evaluate different types of teaching knowledge (cf. Greene & Yu, 2016), as well as their motivation to learn from these sources (Bråten & Ferguson, 2015) . Moreover, epistemic beliefs influence learners’ problemsolving and learning and understanding of complex information (Strømsø & Kammerer, 2016; Valinides & Angeli, 2008), which are vital for future teachers who will be responsible for planning, instructing and evaluating learning in others, as well as for continuing to develop their own knowledge bases (Buehl & Fives, 2016) . The beliefs preservice teachers hold about knowledge and knowing will likely have important consequences for the nature and content of their future classrooms (Feucht, 2010; Schommer-Aikins, 2004) and practice (Brownlee et al., 2011; Lunn Brownlee, Ferguson & Ryan, 2017) . It is therefore important that teacher educators understand the kinds of epistemic beliefs that preservice teachers are likely to hold and how these might influence learning and teaching in teacher education programmes.  \nIn this paper, we focus on preservice teachers’ beliefs about the certainty of teaching knowledge, because these are considered to be core epistemic beliefs (Trautwein & Ludtke, 2007b) . Knowledge about preservice teachers’ epistemic beliefs should be compelling for teacher educators because it can help them to help their students understand more about the nature of teaching knowledge and to motivate them to value and engage with different knowledge sources. It will also aid them in fa","cbCaiawxzuX8IyiN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiawxzuX8IyiN","pdf",317559,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Epistemic Belief Research\n## Approaches to Epistemic Beliefs","[{\"question\":\"What is the study’s main focus?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines preservice teachers’ beliefs about the certainty of teaching knowledge as core epistemic beliefs and how these beliefs relate to learning and teaching in teacher education.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the certainty of teaching knowledge measured?\",\"answer\":\"Sixty-six Norwegian preservice teachers responded to the Beliefs about the Certainty of Teaching Knowledge (BECK) scale during the first and second years of study.\"},{\"question\":\"What key result did the study find about T1 versus T2?\",\"answer\":\"Participants believed knowledge about teaching and learning was more tentative and evolving at T2 than at T1, with reported statistical support (t(65) = 2.0, p = .049).\"},{\"question\":\"Why do the authors argue teacher educators should address these beliefs?\",\"answer\":\"Because preservice teachers hold specific beliefs about the certainty of teaching knowledge that can shape how they value and engage with different knowledge sources and can influence future classroom practice.\"}]","Australian Journal of Teacher Education - Volume 43 - Issue 1 - Article 6 - An Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about the Certainty of Teaching Knowledge | PDF",1792077917,48]