Design and Development of International Context Questionnaires for Mathematics Teachers and Pupils

The FIRSTMATH research team developed two questionnaires to obtain information about the contexts of teaching and learning. These included the beginning teacher context questionnaire for beginning mathematics teachers working in primary and secondary schools, and the pupil context questionnaire for pupils in the primary (3 to 6) and secondary (7 to 12) grades. In this chapter we describe the conceptualization, and development of the questionnaires used in the study as well as approaches to analyze and interpret the data collected.