Feedback plays a very important role in the teaching and learning process, because it allows students to reflect on their learning and clearly see their areas of improvement. Given this established importance of feedback in education, limited research examined how pre-service teachers utilize feedback and its association with mindset orientation and feedback perception, particularly in the context of mathematics education. This convergent parallel mixed-methods study examined associations among pre-service teachers’ mindset beliefs, perceptions of written feedback, and feedback utilization in mathematics at a local college in the Philippines. Quantitative data were gathered from an adapted mindset survey and pre-service teachers’ resubmission behaviors and were analyzed with the chi-square test of independence; qualitative results from semi-structured interviews underwent thematic analysis, and findings were integrated with the quantitative findings through triangulation. Results indicated that growth mindset was associated with student-centered feedback perception (χ²=6.18, p=.013) and with greater feedback utilization (χ²=8.27, p=.004), while feedback perception and feedback utilization were not significantly associated (χ²=0.49, p=.483). Qualitative themes showed how growth-oriented beliefs and student-centered feedback perception supported pre-service teachers’ feedback utilization. The results of the study suggest incorporating feedback literacy training and growth-oriented feedback practices (e.g., the SE2R model) in teacher-education programs can help foster student-centered mathematics classrooms.

Authors:
Richard Reine David, Soledad Unified School District, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Richard Reine S. David is currently a mathematics teacher at Main Street Middle School, Soledad, California, USA;
Interests: growth mindset, feedback literacy, student-centered math;
Current project: mixed-methods study on pre-service teachers’ use of written feedback.

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