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Bottoms, Gene; Merritt, Amanda; Mollette, Dan; Tadlock, Joseph – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
This report presents results of teacher and student surveys on how powerful Mathematics Design Collaborative practices are shifting how teachers teach. It also summarizes student achievement data from schools using the strategies in four states. In vignettes and testimonials, teachers who completed Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Assignments, Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts
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Crimmins, Michael T.; Midkiff, Brooke – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Organic Chemistry is a required course for programs in chemistry, biology, and many health science careers. It has historically been considered a highly challenging course with significant failure rates. As with many science disciplines, the teaching of Organic Chemistry has traditionally focused on unstructured exposition-centered delivery of…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
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Paré-Blagoev, Juliana; Booth, Julie; Elliot, Andrew; Koedinger, Ken – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
As highlighted by the National Math Panel Report (2008), consistent results from laboratory studies have demonstrated that interleaving worked examples with problems to solve improves learning for novices. The purpose of this work is to create materials and tests that can be used flexibly in classrooms and which employ worked examples interleaved…
Descriptors: Assignments, Teaching Methods, Demonstrations (Educational), Classroom Techniques
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Atanasov, Risto; Foguel, Tuval; Lawson, Jeffrey – PRIMUS, 2013
Over the last four years of the senior capstone seminar at Western Carolina University, we have redesigned the course substantially to comply with our institutional Quality Enhancement Plan for engaged student learning and to follow the guidelines proposed by the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on Undergraduate Programs in…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Objectives
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
This document presents the proceedings of the 20th Annual Research Forum held June 25, 2015, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 21 action research papers: (1) History Lives! The Use of Simulations in a High School Social Studies Classroom (Lydia Adkins); (2) Using Francophone Music in the High…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Action Research, Simulation, Social Studies