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Teachers' Use Of Alternate Assessment Methods, Ron Tzur, Karen Brooks, Mary Enderson, Margaret Morgan, Thomas Cooney

Ron Tzur

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Technology-Enriched Elementary Mathematics Education, Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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Why Do We Invert And Multiply: Elementary Teachers’ Struggle To Conceptualize Division Of Fractions, Ron Tzur, Maria Timmerman

Ron Tzur

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Profound Awareness Of The Learning Paradox: A Journey Towards Epistemologically Regulated Pedagogy In Mathematics Teaching And Teacher Education [Book Chapter], Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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Relationship Of Affective And Cognitive Aspects Of Learning, Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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Chapter 3: Mathematics Teaching In A Chinese Classroom : A Hybrid-Model Analysis Of Opportunities For Students' Learning, Rongjin Huang, L. Miller, Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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Postulating Relationships Between Levels Of Knowing And Types Of Tasks In Mathematics Teaching: A Constructivist Perspective, Ron Tzur, Marty Simon

Ron Tzur

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From Theory To Practice: Explaining Successful And Unsuccessful Teaching Activities (Case Of Fractions), Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

In a teaching experiment, I examined a theoretical model of mathematics teaching and learning in practice. In this paper I focus on how the model can guide the teacher's thinking about students' understandings and the generation of activities that foster intended transformations in those understandings. As a research-teacher I taught, twice a week for four months, basic ideas of fractions to 28 third graders, in a public school in Israel. The analysis of both classroom data and researcher's documented reflections indicates how the model can empower the generation and explanation of successful teaching activities, as well as thinking about and …

Interaction And Fraction Knowledge: Children's Construction Of The Iterative Partitioning Scheme, Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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How And What Might Teachers Learn Through Teaching Mathematics: Contributions To Closing An Unspoken Gap [Book Chapter], Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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A Perspective On The Use Of Manipulatives: Making Sense Of A Teacher’S Use Of Base-Ten Blocks To Promote Understanding Of The Long-Division Algorithm, Karen Heinz, Marty Simon, Margaret Kinzel, Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

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Distinguishing Two Stages Of Mathematics Conceptual Learning, Ron Tzur, Marty Simon

Ron Tzur

In this theoretical article, we distinguish two stages of learning a new mathematical concept – participatory and anticipatory. We use a recently developed mechanism for explaining mathematical conceptual learning – reflection on activity-effect relationship – as well as von Glasersfeld’s tripartite model of a scheme, to explain qualitative distinctions between the two stages. We use this distinction to explain why instructional interventions (including inquiry-based approaches) may not bring about the intended instructional goals.

Articulating Theoretical Constructs For Mathematics Teaching, Marty Simon, Ron Tzur, Karen Heinz, Margaret Kinzel

Ron Tzur

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Characterizing A Perspective On Mathematics Learning Of Teachers In Transition, Marty Simon, Ron Tzur, Karen Heinz, Margaret Kinzel, Margaret Smith

Ron Tzur

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A Joint Probabilistic Classification Model Of Relevant And Irrelevant Sentences In Mathematical Word Problems, Suleyman Centintas, Lou Si, Yan Xin, Dake Zhang, Joo Park, Ron Tzur

Ron Tzur

Estimating the difficulty level of math word problems is an important task for many educational applications. Identification of relevant and irrelevant sentences in math word problems is an important step for calculating the difficulty levels of such problems. This paper addresses a novel application of text categorization to identify two types of sentences in mathematical word problems, namely relevant and irrelevant sentences. A novel joint probabilistic classification model is proposed to estimate the joint probability of classification decisions for all sentences of a math word problem by utilizing the correlation among all sentences along with the correlation between the question …

Confronting Domestic Violence In Higher Education, Jill Engle

Jill Engle

Panel presentation on Student Life, Relationships, and the Law. Panel presented at Pepperdine University.

The Potential Impact Of Higher Course Fees On Career Choice, Richard Hays, Kathleen Lockhart, Edward Teo, Janie Smith, David Waynforth

Janie Smith

Background: Most Australian medical student places are government-supported, reducing the cost of tuition to about $10,000 each year, but some private places with fees cost up to $60,000 per year. In North America, debt at graduation is associated with different career choices. We explored the relationship between potential debt at graduation and future career preference. Summary of Work: Data were accessed from the Medical Schools Outcomes database Exit Questionnaire for both government-supported and full fee paying (FFP) students from 2008-11 in all Australian medical schools. The influence of gender, age, relationship status and fee-paying status on future career preference (specialty …

Using A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model In The Supervision Of Final Year Medical Student Placements In The Solomon Islands, Janie Smith, Peter Jones, James Fink

Janie Smith

Background: Makira Island in the Solomon Islands has a population of over 41,000 people, which in 2013 was serviced by one doctor, who worked in the hospital and traveled to remote sites, supported by highly skilled nursing staff. The capital Kira Kira is a very impoverished community with no formal governance structure, poor infrastructure and a large variety of public health issues that lead to fascinating medicine. Summary of Work: In 2013 Bond University’s School of Medicine in Australia commenced 5th year medical student placements at Kira Kira Hospital, with 33 students participating. At times there was little if no …

Assessing Accountability In U.S. Public Education, Anne Kelly, J. Orris

Anne Kelly

Public education accountability rests almost exclusively with schools rather than governments. This paper explores its three dimensions: economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. Performance indicators of these dimensions were developed which facilitated testing of significant differences in means over time using analysis of variance. Only salary and wage expenditures per instruction personnel exhibited greater economy. Instructional equipment per pupil was related to increased efficiency. Several indicators suggested enhanced effectiveness. Student/teacher ratio declined and top performers in public schools improved in achievement. Graduation rate, an indicator of achievement and participation, significantly rose in recent years. In summary, several effectiveness indicators revealed encouraging trends …

The Impact Of Group Selection On Student Performance And Satisfaction, Sakthi Mahenthiran, Pamela Rouse

Pamela J. Rouse

Investigates whether the performance and attitudes of students could be improved by giving them some control over the group selection process. Groups were formed either by randomly combining paired friends or by randomly assigning all students. Students completed a group exercise and a group case. The dependent variables were the project grades and student satisfaction. Student satisfaction was measured using a questionnaire. The results show that attitudes of students were more positive when they were allowed to choose a single friend in the group. The project grades were significantly higher when students were paired, and this result was true regardless …

Turning Challenges Into Gold: Cross-Listing Introductory Honors With Advanced Classes In The Visual Arts, Leda Cempellin

Leda Cempellin

Jim Lacey has offered an insight on the benefits of challenging courses for honors students: he prefers to think of an honors course not as a highly specialized, intensive-writing, and discipline-specific academic course but as the ideal general education course: “The courses themselves, I believe, should be challenging, different, and fun for instructors and students alike. When possible, they should be team taught and interdisciplinary; they should involve off-campus activities; and, instead of papers and exams, they should feature projects, preferably in teams” (79). During the early planning stages of the new course called Museum Experience at South Dakota State …

Peer Review Across Disciplines: Improving Student Performance In The Honors Humanities Classroom, Julie Barst, April Brooks, Leda Cempellin, Barb Kleinjan

Leda Cempellin

The term “peer review” often elicits a negative response from teachers and students alike. The process involves numerous challenges; anyone who has used the technique knows that students often feel awkward giving feedback to their peers and even more uncomfortable accepting the advice of peers in a classroom setting. They hesitate to voice negatives about performance, possibly because they doubt their own reaction to the material presented or fear that, in retaliation, they will be rated poorly as well. In addition, when teachers fail to establish and communicate clearly defined expectations, student authors do not produce high-quality drafts, and student …

The 'Make Your Own Religion' Project: Design And Analysis, Chad Bauman, Brent Hege

Brent A. R. Hege

Internships And The Assessment Of Student Learning, William Templeton, Karel Updyke, Robert Bennett

Robert B. Bennett

The use of internships is a powerful learning tool that allow business students to make connections between their classroom experience and the world of work. If designed appropriately and positioned correctly in the curriculum, they can also be an ideal opportunity to conduct assurance of learning activities related to business school accreditation. This study reports on survey results relating to business schools’ use of internships in their assurance of learning efforts and describes one school’s successful attempt to use internships as the key platform for its well-developed assurance of learning program.

Advancing Community Engaged Scholarship And Community Engagement At The University Of Massachusetts Boston: A Report Of The Working Group For An Urban Research-Based Action Initiative, Mark Warren, John Saltmarsh, Patricia Krueger-Henney, Lorna Rivera, Miren Uriarte, Donna Friedman, Richard Fleming, Diana Yadira-Salas, Luciano Ramos

Lorna Rivera

The University of Massachusetts Boston has a rich history of mission-driven commitments that engage the campus with local, state, regional, national, and global communities. In the context of a public urban research university, a mission of community engagement is most clearly expressed through community-engaged scholarship. The University is positioned to build upon its strengths in community engagement and strengthen its community-engaged scholarship to become an international model for community engagement.

Creating An Academic Culture That Supports Community-Engaged Scholarship, John Saltmarsh, Mark Warren, Patricia Krueger-Henney, Lorna Rivera, Richard Fleming, Donna Friedman, Miren Uriarte

Lorna Rivera

An increasing number of campuses are working to build systems of incentives and supports for faculty who undertake community-engaged scholarship. Recognizing that the policies and cultures that shape faculty behavior for career advancement have not kept pace with changes in knowledge production and dissemination, many campuses are at some stage in the process of reconsidering and revising their reward structures to provide recognition for new forms of scholarship, including community-engaged, digital, and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Does Cultural Awareness Education Have An Impact On Students’ Attitudes?, Janie Smith, Sally Sargeant

Janie Smith

Background:

All over the world people are conducting cultural awareness programs in an effort to educate health professionals about working in a culturally safe way with their patients, in an effort to improve health outcomes. However there is little evidence that any of these programs have a long term impact on the cultural safety of the students practice once graduated. In fact recent research indicates that training programs have been largely ineffective in improving doctors cultural skills, their behaviour or health outcomes. In fact there is anecdotal evidence that some approaches to cross cultural education are having the reverse effect …

Review Of Stem The Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math Education In America, Geeta Verma

Geeta Verma

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Creating A Pipeline To Stem Careers Through Service-Learning: The Aft Program, Anton Puvirajah, Lisa Martin-Hansen, Geeta Verma

Geeta Verma

The Academy for Future Teachers (AFT) is a STEM education and career recruitment program for Metro Atlanta high school students, hosted by Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. This program was developed in response to the changing demographics of our students: shifting much more quickly than the demographics of our teacher populations in the United States. In this chapter, the authors provide information about the AFT Program

Recruiting Minority Students Into Stem Through Experiences In Being A Teacher, Geeta Verma, Anton Puvirajah, Lisa Martin-Hansen

Geeta Verma

The Academy for Future Teachers (AFT) model has shown promise in preparing and inspiring underrepresented high school students to future science careers. Students were recruited into a 3-week summer program collaboratively taught by K-12 teachers and college professors. Our survey study looked into the nature of their participation in the program and how this participation influenced their a) outlook on teachers, teaching, and learning, b) attitudes in science and mathematics, and c) understanding of science and mathematics content. The AFT experience allowed students to develop greater understanding about science and mathematics teachers, teaching, and learning and the nature of science …