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Tobias, Jennifer M.; Roy, George J.; Safi, Farshid – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article examines prospective elementary teachers' conceptions of unitizing with whole numbers and fraction concepts and operations throughout a semester-long mathematics content course. Student work samples and classroom conversations are used to illustrate the types of unitizing understandings that prospective teachers bring to teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Mireles-Rios, Rebeca; Romo, Laura F. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Adolescent girls' and their mothers' expectations for their daughters' college attainment, mother-daughter communication about education, and daughters' early childbearing attitudes were examined in 146 U.S.-raised Latina girls (mean age = 14.4 years) and their mostly immigrant mothers. Through structural equation modeling, we…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Mothers, Daughters
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De Costa, Peter I. – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2014
Extending earlier research on the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) (e.g., MacIntyre et al., 1998), this paper tests the WTC concept on a secondary school in Singapore where English is used as a lingua franca. In doing so, a layer of complexity is added to the WTC concept. By focusing on classroom interactions involving one immigrant…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Secondary School Students
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education