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Luebeck, Vanoli; Lindsay, Jennifer – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
This article describes a carefully structured exploration of formative assessment, conducted in the form of a classroom research experiment. The authors are an instructor and a student in a graduate course that assigned teachers to research formative assessment strategies, implement one or more strategies for several weeks, collect data from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Educational Research, Feedback (Response)
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Yang, Zong-kai; Wang, Meng; Cheng, Hercy N. H.; Liu, San-ya; Liu, Lin; Chan, Tak-Wai – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Research indicates that learning from erroneous examples (EE) is superior to correct examples because errors may provide students with a stimulus to spontaneously produce more self-explanations, leading to better learning outcomes. However, because most studies were conducted in individual settings, it remains an open question whether the…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Models, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students
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Olsen, Jennifer K.; Rummel, Nikol; Aleven, Vincent – Grantee Submission, 2015
To learn from an error, students must correct the error by engaging in sense-making activities around the error. Past work has looked at how supporting collaboration around errors affects learning. This paper attempts to shed further light on the role that collaboration can play in the process of overcoming an error. We found that good…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
Chinnappan, Mohan; White, Bruce – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
That the quality of teachers' knowledge has direct impact on students' engagement and learning outcomes in mathematics is now well established. But questions about the nature of this knowledge and how to characterise that knowledge are important for mathematics educators. In the present study, we examine a strand of "Specialised Content…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Error Correction
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Tolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Alfonso, Tania – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
We report on an exploratory study comparing the performance as online tutors of two groups of beginner eleven-year-old students of English in Colombia and Spanish in New Zealand. The native speaker students of the foreign language the others were learning corrected paragraphs written by their peers. The feedback provided by each group of tutors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Linguistic Input, Peer Relationship
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Star, Jon R.; Foegen, Anne; Larson, Matthew R.; McCallum, William G.; Porath, Jane; Zbiek, Rose Mary; Caronongan, Pia; Furgeson, Joshua,; Keating, Betsy; Lyskawa, Julia – What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
Mastering algebra is important for future math and postsecondary success. Educators will find practical recommendations for how to improve algebra instruction in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students". The methods and examples included in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
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Morris, Frank – Language Learning & Technology, 2005
The current study examined the provision of corrective feedback and learner repair following feedback in the interactional context of child-to-child conversations, particularly computer mediated, in an elementary Spanish immersion class. The relationship among error types, feedback types, and immediate learner repair were also examined. A total of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Internet, Computer Software, Error Correction