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Landman, Greisy Winicki – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2004
This article presents two classroom episodes in which students were exposed to the value of asking questions and to the different roles played by proof in mathematics. The conversation in the two episodes is outlined in the article. The setting was a classroom of fifteen good high-school students, who were studying calculus. These episodes…
Descriptors: Mathematics, High School Students, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Robinson, W. P.; Gillibrand, E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The primary purpose was to investigate the efficacy of a full year of single-sex (SS) teaching of science. The secondary aims were to locate any differentiation by set and gender, and to relate these to more proximal variables. Participants were 13 year olds. Higher set girls gave evidence of clear benefits overall, and higher set boys also,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Gender Differences
Pekel, Feyzi Osman; Demir, Yavuz; Yildiz, Mehmet – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this study was to determine students' perceptions about their biology teachers' attitudes and communication behaviors in classroom environment in Turkey. A Likert type questionnaire was constructed consisting of 33 statements divided to three sub-sections. The Cronbach's alpha reliability for the instrument was 0.9076. Results…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Teacher Attitudes
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Goldhaber, Dan D.; Brewer, Dominic J.; Anderson, Deborah J. – Education Economics, 1999
Estimates a model allowing researchers to determine how much achievement on a 10th-grade standardized test can be explained by observable schooling resources and unobservable school, teacher, and class effects. Although few observable variables are significant test-score determinants, unobservable effects seem important in explaining student…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 10, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
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Watson, J. M.; Chick, H. L. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 2005
This study presents a continuing investigation of influences on outcomes achieved by students working in groups of three on tasks related to chance and data. Earlier research described final mathematical outcomes and identified 17 factors influencing three types of short-term outcomes for groups working in an "isolated setting." The current report…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Context Effect, Group Dynamics, Task Analysis
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Ohta, Amy Snyder – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents a longitudinal study of teacher talk that examines the use of affective particles in the language of the university-level elementary Japanese as a foreign language classroom. Results reveal that affective particles are used far less frequently in the classroom language analyzed than in ordinary conversation and that significant…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, College Students, Epistemology