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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"their content knowledge"”.
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How My Practice Of Using Manipulatives In Teaching Multiplying And Dividing Fractions Influences The Students' Conceptual Unders
… fractions to 8th grade students facilitated their conceptual understanding of those operations. The students who participated in the study were enrolled in one of my intensive mathematics classes. Before the lessons began, I interviewed the students and gave them a pre-assessment to determine …
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Discovering and Applying Geometric Transformations: Transformations to Show Congruence and Similarity
… current high school teachers’ prior mathematical content knowledge and develop their content knowledge of transformations and their applications. The design of this study was guided by the questions: “Why is there a level of reluctance amongst secondary teachers when it comes to teaching geometric …
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An Examination of the Relationship Among the Intentions, Features, Affordances, and Outcomes of Saturday Academy for Math Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
… reported, participants of SA4M deepened their content knowledge on both conceptual and skill specific levels, and expressed intentions to incorporate many of the tasks from SA4M into their practices. There are implications for those tasked with creating and evaluating professional …
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Frederick Douglass and the Rochester Community
… critical thinking skills as well as improving their content knowledge surrounding Frederick Douglass and the struggle for equality in the United States.
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Using board games to teach physics
… affect students' motivation and learning of content about science (Physics). Quasi-Experiment research was used to determine the academic effects of the board game as well as an attitudinal survey to evaluate motivation. Participants were selected by a convenience sample from undergraduate …
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Facilitating Motivation:Implementing Problem-Based Learning into the Science Classroom
… have shown that students’ engagement predicts their learning, grades, achievement, retention, and graduation (National Research Council, 2004). One of the engagement strategies include components to the Self-Determination Theory. According to the Self-Determination Theory, there are three …
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Accomplishing Education Vision 2030: An ICT-based Constructivist Approach to Enhance Content Knowledge and Learning Attitudes of Saudi Arabian High School Students
… an ICT-based constructivist teaching approach on content knowledge and learning attitudes among Saudi Arabian high school students. Traditional teaching methods often rely on teacher-centered instruction, which may limit student engagement, motivation, and critical thinking skills. The research …
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Relationships Among Prospective Elementary Teachers' Beliefs About Mathematics, Mathematics Content Knowledge, and Previous Mathematics Course Experiences
… is the relationship among the constructs content knowledge, beliefs, and previous experiences of prospective elementary teachers. The 36 participants in the study, 35 females and one male, were recent graduates from a five-year Elementary Education licensure program at a major university …
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BUILDING TEACHER CAPACITY IN A RURAL HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH DIFFERENTIATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
… teachers are afforded opportunities to build their capacity through professional development. When teachers perceive that professional development sessions offered by the school district neither support their individual growth needs nor increase their content knowledge, then that perception …
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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
… of the effects of the Lesson Study Process on their content knowledge, 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: …
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An Investigation into the Connection Between Out-of-School Time S.T.E.M. Learning and Student English Acquistion
… not only enhance students’ understanding of content and skills but also expose them to more English. Research has investigated the relationship between students’ participation in OST programs and their content knowledge in those same areas but research has yet to consider any possible …
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Comparing the Performance and Preference of Students Experiencing a Reading Aloud Accommodation to those who do not on a Virtual Science Assessment
… project that seeks to capture students' science knowledge and understanding by contextualizing problems in a game-based virtual environment called Scientopolis. Within Scientopolis, students use an "avatar" to interact with non-player characters (NPCs), artifacts, embedded clues and "sci-tools" …
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THE IMPACT OF ALTERNATE ASSESSMENTS AND STANDARDS-BASED IEPS ON CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
… reform, students with disabilities, along with their non-disabled peers are held to the same or similar grade level academic achievement standards. This descriptive case study explored teacher perceptions of the impact alternate assessments and standards-based IEPs on classroom instruction and …
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REIMAGINING TECHNOLOGY PREPARATION FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: EXPLORING HOW THE USE OF A VIDEO SELF-ANALYSIS INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENT, BASED ON THE EVIDENTIAL REASONING AND DECISION SUPPORT MODEL, IMPACTS PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
<p>Teachers often teach on their own in their individual classrooms and thus have to mostly rely on themselves to reflect on their teaching practices and make improvements. This study explores how the use of a video self-analysis instructional component, based on the evidential reasoning and …
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Investigating the Professional Knowledge of New Zealand Primary School Teachers when Teaching Mathematics for Numeracy
… between teachers’ espoused professional knowledge, professional knowledge in practice, and student learning, when teaching ‘mathematics for numeracy’ in the New Zealand primary school classroom. The focus was on teaching within the multiplicative and proportional domains, as research at …
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Enhancing teachers' use of web-based resources: A case study of secondary technology teachers
The need for teachers to develop their content knowledge and understanding of the nature of technology remains an issue for technology education in New Zealand, and although web-based resources (WBRs) offer an effective means of supporting teachers in this endeavour, and have acknowledged potential …
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An Analysis of Interactions and Outcomes Associated with an Online Professional Development Course for Science Teachers
… on evolutionary biology intended to improve their content knowledge and science lesson planning. Discussion posts made by the teachers in this seven-week course were analyzed for cognitive presence using the Community of Inquiry framework. Compared to other studies examining cognitive …
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Zimbabwean teachers’ espoused and enacted knowledge for teaching ordinary-level integrated science
… is an on-going discourse on exploring Teacher Knowledge in General Education and Science Education fields (Elbaz, 1983, Shulman, 1987, Grossman, 1990; Carlsen, 1999; Lederman, 2006; Chapman, 2013; Goodwin & Kosnik, 2013). Central in this discourse on Teacher Knowledge is understanding teachers …