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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"student thinking"”.
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What Secondary Science Teachers Pay Attention to in the Classroom: Situating Teaching in Institutional and Social Systems
… when science teachers attend to the substance of student thinking, which is called for by science education reform (NRC, 2007). Using a case study approach, and drawing on ethnographic data sources, I explore what novice and experienced secondary science teachers regularly attend to while …
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Improving instruction in mechanics through indentification and elicitation of pivotal cases in student reasoning
… represent new instances of common patterns of student reasoning, notably the conflation of related concepts. In cases where persistent student errors were already well known, tutorial instructional materials existed at the start of this project. These materials had been developed with specific …
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Investigating Teachers' Perspectives on the Impact of the Lesson Study Process on Their Mathematical Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge, and the Potential for Student Achievement
… pedagogical knowledge, and the potential for students‘ achievement. The population was 55 teachers from elementary, middle, and secondary schools in a metropolitan area. The three research questions guiding this study were: (1) What are the perspectives of teachers on the impact of the Lesson …
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Differentiated Instruction for 1st Grade Advanced Learners in Mathematics
<p>Differentiated instruction is student-aware teaching, in which the students not only develop content mastery, but also take ownership of their learning. This study examined the results differentiated instruction in mathematics had on advanced learners perceived competence, persistence, and …
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An Understanding of Higher-Order Thinking in Social Studies: A Naturalistic Case Study of a Korean Middle School Classroom
… Sociocultural resistance to higher order thinking, poor institutional support, and lack of classroom task ownership are detrimental to higher order thinking although Mr. Jang makes a compromise between exam preparation and inquiry. As a result, given poor schooling and sociocultural …
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Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges
… identity influence her teaching and shape her students’ perceptions of Chinese language learning? (3) How did Dr. Lin engage student thinking and facilitate student understanding of Chinese text, expression, and narrative in the activities she used in the classroom, and what computer and …
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Investigating the impact of beliefs, norms, and culture on teachers in both a comprehensive middle school and STEM-focused middle school
… The urban public school was focused on student character development and standardized test preparation, while the suburban private school focused more on fostering student thinking. This small glimpse into the relationship between beliefs, practice, and norms could suggest that different …
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Prompting meaningful analysis from pre-service teachers using elementary mathematics video vignettes
… portrayed in the video; when asked to focus on students' understanding, contrary to expectations, pre-service teachers' responses tended to be descriptive. Yet these descriptions were not simple, but rich and detailed. This may be a fundamental precursor to analysis of student thinking—and …
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An Examination of Administrators' Knowledge of the Standards for Mathematical Practice - A Think Aloud
… and how their instructional practices relate to student thinking. This research study was conducted to illustrate the importance of understanding the thought process of administrators as they make decisions about teacher effectiveness based on what they notice during observations of mathematics …
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Literacy Intervention at the Middle Level: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the Implementation of Thinking Maps
<p>This study examined the implementation of Thinking Maps® as a literacy instructional intervention for students in grades four and five. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, the study investigated the effect of Thinking Maps® on student achievement, changes in students’ …
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Co-teaching and modeling: The work of coaches and teachers as they engage in one-on-one mathematics professional development
… to circumvent the teachers in order to maximize student gains on pre- and post-assessments, and these coaches were spread quite thin as additional responsibilities were added to their already full plates. Due to this set of competing external conditions, I observed significant differences between …
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Faculty Interests - Faculty Needs: Creating Meaningful Critical Thinking Training
<p>Helping students improve their critical thinking and writing abilities is a challenge for university instructors. Although they are experts in their specific disciplines, most of them struggle when it comes to developing appropriate and successful critical thinking activities for their students. …
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Culture of Growth: Teacher Collaboration for the Empowerment of All Students
… various pressures they feel for performance and student learning, the forces they balance in making their instructional choices, and the ways in which they make instructional choices and change their approaches over time. From analysis of the data a five-part model emerged. The overarching …
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Connecting Art and Science: An Interdisciplinary Strategy and its Impact on the Affective Domain of Community College Human Anatomy Students
… research conducted on community college students of human anatomy. This project investigated the relationship between an interdisciplinary teaching strategy and the affective domain in science education by utilizing an interdisciplinary lecture in a human anatomy class. Subjects were …
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The lesson study professional development process : exploring the learning experiences of elementary and middle school teachers
… plan a research lesson, teach and observe students’ thinking and learning behaviors and then revise and re-teach the lesson. The origin of lesson study in the United States began shortly after, The Teaching Gap by James Stigler and James Hiebert was published in 1999. The researchers …
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What Does It Mean To Preservice Mathematics Teachers To Anticipate Student Responses?
… of the features of lesson study is anticipating student responses, also known as anticipating student thinking. Anticipating student responses is passingly described in lesson study literature. This research was conducted to understand what it means to anticipate student responses for preservice …
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The FOCUS Framework: Snapshots of Mathematics Teacher Noticing
… review lessons that support the development of students’ mathematical thinking. Teacher noticing refers to what teachers see and how they interpret these observations to decide their responses to classroom situations. More specifically, this study examines what makes noticing productive with …
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Graphic Organizers: Toward Organization and Complexity of Student Content Knowledge
… As a result, classroom curriculum and student learning are narrowing. This study sought to explore the potential of graphic organizers as an instructional strategy to expand student content knowledge beyond rote memorization to include more organized, complex, meaningful learning. For …
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Teacher torque: A research project investigating student cognitive engagement through observations of non-verbal responses to certain forms of classroom questions
This research project investigates student cognitive engagement through observations of nonverbal responses to certain forms of classroom questions. The basic assumption of this thesis is that education is the intentional act of expanding or evolving each individual student's model of the world. …
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