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Rebecca Burtenshaw; Merrilyn Goos – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
This position paper examines the phenomenon of the McNamara Fallacy to analyse flawed conceptions of "success" in mathematics learning, normalised assessment structures and their implications for mathematics education. The established presence of the McNamara Fallacy and the ramifications of this statistical fallacy provide a foundation…
Descriptors: Criticism, Misconceptions, Mathematics Education, Success
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Isabella Walser-Bürgler – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
When the newly appointed professor of medicine at the University of Rinteln, Johann Peter Lotichius (1598-1669), delivered an oration entitled "Oratio super fatalibus hoc tempore academiarum in Germania periculis" ("Oration on the pernicious dangers to the universities of contemporary Germany") at said university in February…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Foreign Countries, Universities