Educational technology research and development - The goal of the current study was to investigate the effects of an immersive virtual reality (IVR) science simulation on learning in a higher... 相似文献
Often, mathematics teachers do not incorporate whole-class discourse of students’ various ideas and solution methods into their teaching practice. Particularly complex is the in-the-moment decision-making that is necessary to build on students’ thinking and develop their collective construction of mathematics. This study explores the decision-making patterns of five experienced Dutch mathematics teachers during their novice attempts at orchestrating whole-class discourse concerning students’ various solution methods. Our goal has been to unpack the complexity of their in-the-moment decision-making during whole-class discourse through lesson observations and stimulated recall interviews. We investigated teacher decision-making adopting a model that combines two perspectives, namely (1) we explored student-teacher interaction with regard to building on student thinking and (2) we explored how the teachers based decisions during such interaction upon their own personal conceptions and interpretation of student thinking. During these novice attempts at orchestrating whole-class discourse, the teachers created many situations for students to articulate their thinking. We found that at certain instances, teachers’ in-the-moment decision-making resulted in opportunities to build on student thinking that were not completely seized. During such instances, the teachers’ decision-making was shaped by the teachers’ own conceptions of the relevant mathematics and by teacher conceptions that centered around student understanding and mathematical goals. Our findings suggest that teachers might be supported in their novice attempts at whole-class discourse by explicit discussion of the mathematics and of their conceptions with regard to student understanding and mathematical goals.
Educational Studies in Mathematics - In mathematical whole-class discussions, teachers can build on various student ideas and develop these ideas toward mathematical goals. This requires teachers... 相似文献
Recently, developmentally appropriate practices have been distinguished from traditional practices and have been advocated as one way to reform primary general education classrooms. Relatively little research has examined the efficacy of developmentally appropriate versus traditional practices. In particular, concerns have been raised about the effectiveness of this approach for students with disabilities. This study examined the relationship between primary teachers' implementation of developmentally appropriate and traditional teaching methods and the mathematics achievement of general and special education students. Observations, interviews and questionnaires were used to measure the mathematics teaching practices used with general and special education students. Because developmentally appropriate and traditional teaching practices are often characterized in terms of a continuum, principal components methods were used to generate continuous composite variables that described teacher presentation, materials, grouping, and curriculum. The outcome measure was a curriculum- based measure of mathematics achievement. Principal components results showed that the composite variables most clearly associated with the developmentally appropriate v. traditional continuum were not related to mathematics achievement. Instead, consistent with previous research, achievement was associated with a reported measure of instruction that emphasized mathematical processing and strategy instruction. Further, a reported “laissez faire” method that emphasized individual student choice and treated special education students like general education students was negatively related to achievement, as was placement in special education class. 相似文献
This paper identifies limitations within the current literature on understanding learning. Overcoming these limitations entails
replacing dualist views of learning as either individual or social, by using a theory of learning cultures and a cultural
theory of learning, which articulate with each other. To do this, we argue that it is possible and indeed necessary to combine
major elements of participatory or situated views of learning with elements of Deweyan embodied construction. Bourdieu’s concepts
of habitus and field are used to achieve this purpose, together with the use of ‘becoming’ as a metaphor to help understand
learning more holistically. This theorizing has a predominantly heuristic purpose, and we argue that it enables researchers
to better explain data. We also suggest that a cultural approach of the sort proposed here leads toward the asking of better
questions about learning and its improvement and has high practical significance.
History teachers (N=22) and their 11th-grade students (N=451) rated the importanceof four types of questions (verbatim, paraphrase, inference and skill items) by indicating the degree to which these questions were to be expected in an upcoming teacher-made test about a particular textbook chapter. In addition, teachers classified their actual tests according to these four question types. Importance ratings of individual students showed a low correspondence with those of their teacher and no correspondence with the actual test questions (as classified by their teacher). However, teachers' importance ratings also showed a considerable number of discrepancies with the actual test questions. These findings suggest that in study-test situations, more clarity is needed about processing demands. 相似文献
In this paper we wish to argue that despite strong challenges to representational epistemology in the last two centuries,
modern schooling is still organised around a representational view of knowledge. This is the case despite teaching practices
being modified to accommodate different views of knowledge that have emerged in the last two centuries. This means, if schooling
is to be brought in line with current epistemological trends, there is still a case for updating the epistemology of schooling.
Our analysis shows, however, that this update will not leave the idea of modern schooling in tact. Updating the epistemology
of schooling, so we argue, requires a fundamental rethink of the purposes of schooling. 相似文献