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A critical exploration of developmental mathematics students' conceptions of the role of mathematics in society.
(2000)
Analysis of the data was based primarily upon Skovsmose' theory of critical mathematics education and Mezirow's theory of perspective transformation. Two major divisions in the findings were developed. These two divisions ...
Learning Physics Concepts as a Function of Colloquial Language Usage
(2008)
Data from two sections of college introductory, algebra-based physics courses (n1 = 139, n2 = 91) were collected using three separate instruments to investigate the relationships between reasoning ability, conceptual gain ...
Rethinking professional development concerning comprehension strategy instruction.
(2007)
The focus of this mixed methods study was to determine if one form of professional development was more effective than another in promoting teacher change in incorporating comprehension strategies to support students ...
A case study of the adoption of a technology-based innovation in an urban school district: An e-portfolio initiative.
(2007)
The study also provides several recommendations for further research. Recommendations include the expansion of several demographic and/or contextual data points in an effort to provide rich narrative of the environment ...
Mathematics in a ubiquitous computing environment: Communication, roles, and sense making.
(2003)
In conclusion, e-mail served as a conversational and instructional tool for a college mathematics class. E-mails provided the students a conversational tool in which they were able to converse with the professor about ...
A window on school-age care.
(2001)
The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships of the many characteristics that may contribute to the quality of school-age child care and to examine, from an ecological perspective, school-age child care ...
Taiwanese teachers' beliefs about student self-determination: Implications for multicultural education.
(2007)
A critical ethnographic methodology based on constructive epistemological assumptions was used to investigate the perspectives of five Taiwanese teachers from different ethnic/language groups. Interview data were further ...
Ella Baker and the SNCC: Grassroots leadership and political activism in a nonhierarchical organization.
(2007)
In SNCC, both men and women worked side by side in rural America. Some of SNCC's successes were due to the work of the large number of Black and White women in the organization. The study describes how SNCC promoted the ...
The adolescent's sense of being literate: Reshaping through classroom transitions.
(2007)
The study revealed that the students' sense of being literate was reshaped. The majority of the students described themselves as better readers and even more so as writers. Relationships and goal setting played key roles ...
An examination of the effect of teacher read-aloud on adolescent attitudes and learning in science.
(2007)
A repeated measures analysis suggested both teacher read-aloud and silent reading were appropriate for student learning but results do not support either method as superior over the other. Multiple regression analyses were ...