In an AI-guided PD program, rural teachers engaged with mathematical creativity, content knowledge, and PCK as interconnected forms of reasoning rather than isolated domains¶
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q2 i? Across eight cases, teachers' engagement with MC, CK, and PCK unfolded in interconnected ways during AI-guided proportional reasoning modules. → Ali Bicer 2026
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Ali Bicer 2026¶
Ali Bicer, Tugce Aldemir, Unggi Lee, Jewoong Moon, Karen Rambo Hernandez, Miriam Sanders. (2026). How generative AI guided-professional development supports teachers' engagement with mathematical creativity, content knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge. ZDM–Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-026-01816-1
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Embedded case study of eight Grade 5-6 rural teachers completing ten AI-guided modules; iterative thematic analysis of dialogue logs, artifacts, and interviews found "teachers engaged with MC, CK, and PCK as interconnected forms of reasoning rather than as isolated domains."
"Findings showed that teachers engaged with MC, CK, and PCK as interconnected forms of reasoning rather than as isolated domains."
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Related Claims¶
- Simulated student reasoning shifted teachers from task-solvers to teacher-reasoners who interpreted misconceptions as student logic — related
- Progressive scaffold fading moved teachers from guided participation toward independent justification, generalization, and task design — related
- The AI's nonjudgmental conversational tone and adaptive prompting fostered risk-taking and productive struggle in a psychologically safe environment — related
- Teachers' engagement growth was negotiated through balancing challenges and cognitive load, with some experiences of strain and isolation — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- On CK items, GradeOpt showed near-perfect alignment with human codes (κ = .88 and .85; QWK = .89 and .94), comparable to human–human agreement — related
- The multi-agent LLM GradeOpt achieved substantial agreement with human coders on overall PCK items (κ = .68, QWK = .79) and outperformed RoBERTa, SBERT, and naïve GPT-4o prompting — related
- Teachers' knowledge of SRL is partial and unevenly developed across all three dimensions — related
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In an AI-guided PD program, rural teachers engaged with mathematical creativity, content knowledge, and PCK as interconnected forms of reasoning rather than isolated domains |
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In an AI-guided PD program, rural teachers engaged with mathematical creativity, content knowledge, and PCK as interconnected forms of reasoning rather than isolated domains |
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