Preservice Teachers’ Learning to Respond on the Basis of Children’s Mathematical Understanding

Table 5

Description of the coding scheme.

Component skill	Code	Subcode	Score
Attending to children’s strategies	Considers the extent to which PSTs’ explanation demonstrated evidence of providing mathematical details	Most mathematical details	2
		Some mathematical details	1
		Lack of mathematical details	0
Interpreting children’s mathematical understanding	Considers the extent to which PSTs’ explanations demonstrated evidence that the interpretation was based on children’s mathematical understanding	Robust evidence	2
		Limited evidence	1
		Lack of evidence	0
Responding based on children’s mathematical understanding	Considers the extent to which PSTs’ rationale demonstrated evidence that it was based on children’s mathematical understanding	Robust evidence	2
		Limited evidence	1
		Lack of evidence	0