This study aims to examine relationship between early childhood pre-service teachers` early childhood mathematical content knowledge and mathematics teaching efficacy. This study`s subjects are 73 early childhood pre-service teachers from two four-yea...
This study aims to examine relationship between early childhood pre-service teachers` early childhood mathematical content knowledge and mathematics teaching efficacy. This study`s subjects are 73 early childhood pre-service teachers from two four-year universities, A and B, situated in Daejeon Metropolitan City. Their mathematical content knowledge and mathematics teaching efficacy were analysed using a concept map and a questionnaire, respectively. The results are as follows. First, there was static correlation between early childhood pre-service teachers` early childhood mathematical content knowledge and mathematics teaching efficacy. Second, relationship between early childhood pre-service teachers` early childhood mathematical content knowledge and outcome expectation was not statistically significant. Third, there was static correlation between early childhood pre-service teachers` early childhood mathematical content knowledge and efficacy expectation. The above results mean that pre-service teachers` good learning of a specific subject`s content knowledge leads to their excellent teaching, and therefore good learning of content knowledge is crucial.