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Direct linkCai, Jinghong; Gut, Dianne – Teaching Education, 2020
The purpose of our study is to delve into the education gap between the United States and some countries by examining the literacy and digital problem-solving skills of American educators, and comparing their performance with that of their peers from Canada, Finland, and Japan. We use PIAAC data collected by the Organization for Economic…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Problem Solving, 21st Century Skills
Download full textGube, Maren; Shore, Bruce M. – Online Submission, 2018
From the 1990s until 2017 the High Ability and Inquiry Research Group (HAIR) at McGill University in Montreal, received C$1.3M in research funds from Canadian, Quebec, and US agencies to support its research and graduate training in education and educational psychology. Their research encompassed two principal areas, Inquiry in Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Objectives, Academic Ability
Suurtamm, Christine; Vezina, Nancy – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2010
The research article in this article is part of a larger study that examines an initiative to expand teacher expertise in facilitating mathematical problem solving within the framework of developing and field-testing pedagogical resources. We focus on one year of the study and report on the complex process of professional development as teachers…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Educational Practices, Teaching Models, Mathematics Curriculum
Nashon, Samson Madera; Anderson, David; Nielsen, Wendy S. – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2009
The teaching of science, especially at pre-college and teacher education levels has undergone tremendous transformation over the years: from teacher-centred transmission to student-centred approaches rooted in constructivism. Whereas constructivism has been charged with all manner of shortfalls, it still can be of benefit to the way physics…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Mathematics Education, Prior Learning
Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Berneche, Christian, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2009
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at the Universite de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Characteristics
Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2006
This article reviews didactical and psychologically based research on teachers' work and teacher thinking, narrative educational inquiry and studies of change in teachers' work and places them in the context of sociological theory about expert work and symbolic capital. The work of Abbott on the structure of expert work and knowledge, and Bourdieu…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Educational Research, Knowledge Level, Inquiry
Gustafson, Brenda; MacDonald, Dougal; d'Entremont, Yvette – Alberta Education, 2007
This report presents a literature review of elementary science and design technology education research. The review is intended to provide direction to the elementary science working groups charged with the responsibility to revise the "Alberta Elementary Science Program" (1996) by reflecting current ideas reported in research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Programs, Scientific Principles, Problem Solving
