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Stockero, Shari L.; Van Zoest, Laura R.; Peterson, Blake E.; Leatham, Keith R.; Rougée, Annick O. T. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This study investigates teacher responses to a common set of high potential instances of student mathematical thinking to better understand the role of the teacher in shaping meaningful mathematical discourse in their classrooms. Teacher responses were coded using a scheme that disentangles the teacher move from other aspects of the teacher…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Kopecková, Romana – Language Awareness, 2018
In the field of third language acquisition metalinguistic awareness is posited to be a fundamental component of multilingual competence and a key factor facilitating the acquisition of additional languages. Building upon Bialystok's model of attention and control, and Wrembel's research into metaphonological awareness in adult L3 learners, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness, Language Acquisition
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Orrill, Chandra Hawley; Brown, Rachael Eriksen; Burke, James P.; Millett, John; Nagar, Gili Gal; Park, Jinsook; Weiland, Travis – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
In this study we extend our prior exploration focused on the extent to which middle school teachers appropriately identified proportional situations and whether there were relationships between attributes of the teachers and their ability to identify proportional situations. For this study, we analyzed both a larger dataset (n = 32) and two…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Concepts, Middle School Teachers
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Lamb, Lisa; Bishop, Jessica; Philipp, Randolph; Whitacre, Ian; Schappelle, Bonnie – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
To better understand the role that ways of reasoning play in students' success on integer addition and subtraction problems, we examined the relationship between students' flexible use of ways of reasoning and their performance on integers open number sentences. Within groups of students in 3 participant groups--39 2nd and 4th graders who had…
Descriptors: Numbers, Addition, Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction
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Rice, Mary F.; Carter, Richard Allen, Jr. – Online Learning, 2016
Students with disabilities represent a growing number of learners receiving education in K-12 fully online learning programs. They are, unfortunately, also a large segment of the online learning population who are not experiencing success in these environments. In response, scholars have recommended increasing instruction in self-regulation skills…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Control, Online Courses
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Sormunen, Eero; Tanni, Mikko; Heinström, Jannica – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: Information literacy instruction is often undertaken in schools as collaborative source-based writing assignments. his paper presents the findings of a study on collaboration in two school assignments designed for information literacy. Method: The study draws on the models of cooperative and collaborative learning and the task-based…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Cooperative Learning, Information Seeking, Interviews
Livy, Sharyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
The theoretical understanding that underpins a teacher's foundation knowledge draws on their common content knowledge (CCK) and influences their mathematics' teaching (Rowland, Turner, Thwaites, & Huckstep, 2009). Teachers who have specialised content knowledge (SCK) demonstrate a unique kind of content knowledge which is more than knowing the…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Qualitative Research
Cheeseman, Jill; McDonough, Andrea; Ferguson, Sarah – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
This paper reports on a design experiment regarding young children's concepts of mass measurement. 119 year one and two children were interviewed using a clinical interview both before and after the teaching period comprising five lessons that offered rich learning experiences regarding concepts of mass. The results of the interviews were that the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Measurement, Elementary School Students, Interviews
Martell, Christopher C. – Online Submission, 2014
In this interpretative case study, the researcher examined the beliefs and practices of three social studies teachers related to their teaching of race in U.S. history at a racially and ethnically diverse urban high school. Using the theory of culturally relevant pedagogy as a lens, this study employed mixed methods, analyzing teacher interviews,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Racial Factors, Race, United States History
Rikala, Jenni – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of Quick Response (QR) codes and mobile devices in the context of Finnish basic education. The feasibility was analyzed through a mobile learning framework, which includes the core characteristics of mobile learning. The study is part of a larger research where the aim is to develop a…
Descriptors: Coding, Feasibility Studies, Case Studies, Electronic Learning
Beach, Jason; Wendt, Jeremy – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine if participants could improve their social interaction skills by participating in a virtual immersive environment. The participants used a developing virtual reality head-mounted display to engage themselves in a fully-immersive environment. While in the environment, participants had an opportunity…
Descriptors: Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Simulated Environment, Educational Environment
Rikala, Jenni; Kankaanranta, Marja – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The aim of this case study was to explore the feasibility of the Quick Response (QR) codes and mobile devices in the context of Finnish basic education. The interest was especially to explore how mobile devices and QR codes can enhance and blend teaching and learning. The data were collected with a teacher interview and pupil surveys. The learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
Schmidt, Amy Elizabeth; And Others – 1996
Content analysis was used to examine the consistency of responses in self-report data obtained by a semi-structured conversational interview. It was hypothesized that a majority of the seemingly inconsistent responses would prove to be consistent when seen from the respondents' points of view. The sample consisted of 215 female homicide offenders…
Descriptors: Coding, Content Analysis, Females, Homicide
Lambert, Richard; And Others – 1997
The Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) is an interviewing and measurement strategy that originated as a methodological component of the Personal Construct Theory of G. Kelly (1955). Because the RGT focuses on internal processes, it can enhance a key informant interview in that the comparisons it requires the respondent to make stimulate connections…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Coding, Comparative Analysis
Tung, Rosann; Ouimette, Monique; Feldman, Jay – Center for Collaborative Education, 2004
This study probes more deeply on defining the "reform agenda" and answering the question, "How do coaches balance pushing the reform agenda and meeting the immediate needs of school staff?" This study first teases apart what coaches mean by "reform agenda" and "immediate needs." The term "reform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Coaching (Performance), Educational Environment, Educational Strategies