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Bleiler-Baxter, Sarah K.; Hart, James B.; Wanner, Cecilia Anne – PRIMUS, 2021
An important step to achieving a sustainable department culture that encourages innovation in teaching is the alleviation of the isolation that teaching faculty experience. Decreasing this isolation should be accomplished in a manner that respects all instructors' classroom practices while simultaneously exposing faculty to new ideas. In this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Observation, College Faculty
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Calkins, Susanna; Grannan, Sharisse; Siefken, Jason – PRIMUS, 2020
This study explores the impact of Peer-Assisted Reflection (PAR), a structured active learning strategy that emphasizes peer feedback and reflection, on students' perceptions of mathematical thinking, and of the roles their peers and their instructors play in their learning process. This study also examines the impact of PAR on the students'…
Descriptors: Reflection, Peer Influence, Active Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Cabedo, J. David; Maset-Llaudes, Amparo – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Self or formative assessment are terms that, linked to feedback, appear in the literature associated with initiatives aimed at improving the learning process in higher education. Some studies have highlighted the peculiarities of the feedback techniques targeted towards first-year undergraduates, in subjects with a large number of students, or…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Heffernan, Kayla A.; Newton, Kristie J. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2019
Early childhood and elementary preservice teachers often fear mathematics, find it irrelevant, have mathematics anxiety, hold negative self-perceptions, and have low mathematics achievement. This study investigates the influence of an identity exploration intervention on preservice teachers' mathematics identities during a college Algebra course…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Ching, Cheryl D. – Review of Higher Education, 2018
This study examined how participation in an inquiry-based workshop on assessing course syllabi for equity-mindedness and cultural inclusivity fostered community college math faculty learning about racial/ethnic equity and equity-mindedness. Findings show that the workshop prompted reflection on what equity means and how participants' teaching…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inquiry, Teacher Workshops, College Faculty
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Hekimoglu, Serkan; Kittrell, Emily – PRIMUS, 2010
This study investigates whether seeing a documentary on how mathematicians do mathematics improves students' math "self-efficacy beliefs." The analysis of students' written reflections and classroom observations suggests that watching the documentary may help students' math anxiety decrease and positive self-efficacy toward learning mathematics…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, Student Attitudes