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Download full textLai, Morris K.; Whitman, Nancy C. – 1988
Using items from the Second International Study of Mathematics (1984) and the "effective teaching" literature, this study found differences between Tokyo and Hawaii junior high school teachers in terms of background, instructional behavior, teaching load, use of time, emphasis of objectives, and use of calculators. Hawaii teachers spent…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Foundations of Education, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedWhitman, Nancy C.; Lai, Morris K. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1990
Examines the similarities and differences in beliefs about the effective teaching of mathematics held by teachers from two different sociocultural backgrounds. Data were collected using a part of the Teacher General Classroom Process Questionnaire of the second IEA Mathematics Study. (Author)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
