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Tyminski, Andrew M.; Brittain, McKenzie H. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This paper represents research that exists at the crossroad of scholarly practice and scholarly inquiry. We share the design, enactment and empirical examination of an elementary methods course activity, Exploring and Supporting Student Thinking (ESST) which engaged 18 prospective teachers in two sessions of one on one problem posing with 3rd…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Practices, Interaction, Elementary School Mathematics
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Schiefer, Julia; Oschatz, Kerstin; Golle, Jessika; Trautwein, Ulrich; Tibus, Maike – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Research on scientific reasoning plays an essential role at the intersection of cognitive development and science education. As only few paper-pencil-tests exist to assess scientific reasoning abilities of elementary school children, the goal of the current study was the development of a new reliable and valid instrument. We focused on the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Process Skills, Abstract Reasoning
Fielding-Wells, Jill – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
Argumentation in mathematics teaching has potential to move students beyond tacit understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures towards articulation and justification of their ideas; a practice in which evidence is central. Design-based research was used to examine the nature of evidence used by a class of primary students through levels…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
Norris, Cathleen A.; Soloway, Elliot; Tan, Chun Ming; Looi, Chee Kit; Hossain, Akhlaq – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
In this project report, we describe the role that a 1:1 smartphone deployment played in transforming the education of P3 (primary 3/grade 3) students (350+) from a didactic/direction instruction pedagogy to an inquiry pedagogy. Based on the students' test scores--Not only did the students learn the prescribed content, but they also developed 21st…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Educational Change, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Crawford, Teresa; Kelly, Gregory J.; Brown, Candice – 1999
This study brings an anthropological perspective informed by sociolinguistic discourse analysis to examine how teachers, students, and scientists constructed ways of investigating and knowing science. The teaching and learning processes for a group of third grade students and how, in the following academic year, these same students drew upon their…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary School Science, Grade 3, Inquiry
Yackel, Erna; Bowers, Janet – 1997
This paper examines students' mathematics learning in a social context as two versions of an instructional sequence designed to facilitate students' development of a conceptual foundation for place-value numeration are enacted in two third grade classrooms. The same instructional sequence is used in each classroom with the regular classroom…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Structures