Investigating Mathematics Student Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge in the Context of Knowledge of Assessment

One of the components of Pedagogical Content Knowledge is the Knowledge of Assessment. Knowledge of Assessment includes that teacher knows the purposes and strategies of assessment and possess the abilities to construct and implement them. The new secondary mathematics curriculum asks teachers to adopt the constructivist approach in their teaching and assessment methods. In this study, the purpose is to determine student teachers knowledge of assessment related to the limit and continuity concept. First, Content Knowledge Questionnaire on the limit and continuity concepts was administered to 37 student teachers and then 4 of them who had different levels of subject matter were selected taking into account of the results of the questionnaire. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with these student teachers, and they asked to prepare a lesson plan of the limit and continuity concepts and then teach it through micro-teaching. Obtained data shows that the student teachers knowledge of assessment was limited and consisted of traditional assessment methods such as written and oral examination.