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Wei, Liwei; Murphy, P. Karen; Firetto, Carla M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Small-group discussions in which teachers and students interact with text are common in language arts classrooms. As documented in the extant literature, teacher discourse moves affect how the discussion unfolds and the resulting quality of the talk. What is not present in the literature is a unified lexicon or taxonomy for defining and…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Facilitators (Individuals), Group Discussion, Taxonomy
Chang, Briana L.; Cromley, Jennifer G.; Tran, Nhi – Grantee Submission, 2015
Coordination of multiple representations (CMR) is widely recognized as a critical skill in mathematics and is frequently demanded in reform calculus textbooks. However, little is known about the prevalence of coordination tasks in such textbooks. We coded 707 instances of CMR in a widely used reform calculus textbook and analyzed the distributions…
Descriptors: Calculus, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction