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Casey, Stephanie A.; Albert, Jim; Ross, Andrew – Journal of Statistics Education, 2018
Due to the increased role of statistics in current curriculum standards, there is at present a call for attention to secondary teachers' knowledge for teaching statistics in teacher education. This article reports the results of a study that answered this call by addressing mathematics teachers' knowledge for teaching graphing of bivariate…
Descriptors: Statistics, Graphs, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Teachers
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Corwin, Lisa A.; Kiser, Stacey; LoRe, Sondra M.; Miller, Jillian M.; Aikens, Melissa L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Quantitative skills are an important competency for undergraduate biology students and should be incorporated early and frequently in an undergraduate's career. Community colleges (CCs) are responsible for teaching introductory biology to a large proportion of biology and prehealth students, and quantitative skills are critical for their careers.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Statistical Analysis, Skill Development
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Malewski, Erik – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2013
In this essay, I offer a response to Stemhagen, Reich, and Muth's (see EJ1089246) delineation of disciplined judgment. I draw from my latest obsession with epistemologies of ignorance to complicate their focus on disciplinarity with questions over how non-knowledge gets framed and created. I use Suniti Sharma's seven-year study to highlight the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Vignettes, Teaching Methods, Social Bias
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Obenchain, Kathryn M.; Pennington, Julie L.; Orr, Angela – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
This qualitative case study examines one secondary social studies teacher's enactment of her critical constructivist beliefs in teaching for democratic citizenship education. Results are organized around the knowledge, skills, and dispositions addressed, and their consistency with critical constructivism. The teacher's practices were consistent…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Democracy, Citizenship Education, Social Studies
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Shor, Ron; Friedman, Adina – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Poor nutrition is a major risk factor affecting proper development of children. However, there is limited knowledge about the way in which this subject is being integrated into professionals' work in early childhood education programs dealing with situations of children-at-risk. A study on this subject was conducted with 60 professionals who…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Nutrition Instruction, Health Promotion, Young Children
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Kent, Laura B.; Pligge, Margie; Spence, Mary – Middle School Journal, 2003
Explores changes in teacher knowledge through curriculum reform in the middle grades. Summarizes middle school reforms across the core subject areas, how some of the recently developed mathematics curricula have been used to improve student learning and enhance teachers' content knowledge, and analyzes responses from teacher interviews on one such…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Classroom Environment, Curriculum, Educational Change
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Tippett, Jennifer – Kairaranga, 2004
The Ministry of Education's policy, "Special Education 2000" (SE 2000) was intended to promote a model that ensured all students received an education that involved successful experiences (Ministry of Education, 1996). Students with Asperger Syndrome (AS) often have difficulty adapting to and achieving these successful experiences in…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Teacher Characteristics, Asperger Syndrome, Teacher Responsibility