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Direct linkBurner, Tony – Assessment Matters, 2019
Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) has been used in several development studies, but few have used it for the purposes of formative assessment. This article reports from a study where the activity system was used to conduct a historical and actual-empirical analysis of the assessment culture at a purposively selected school. The article…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Social Psychology, Social Theories
Download full textKline, Sonia M.; McCarthey, Sarah J. – Middle Grades Review, 2018
This comparative case study, framed by Cultural Historical Activity Theory and sociocultural understandings of literacy, investigated students' online literate activity in two eighth grade English Language Arts classes taught by the same teacher--one with a scripted literacy curriculum and the other without. During a year-long research project, we…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, English Instruction, Language Arts
Sezen-Barrie, Asli; Tran, Minh-Dan; McDonald, Scott P.; Kelly, Gregory J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
This study draws from cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to analyze preservice teachers' reflections on a microteaching activity. Microteaching activities involved preservice educators teaching middle school students from local schools. The study was conducted with 23 preservice teachers enrolled in a large university's teacher…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, History, Social Theories, Preservice Teachers
Duffy, Gavin; Gallagher, Tony – Research Papers in Education, 2015
This paper examines an initiative promoting collaboration between schools located in a city setting in Northern Ireland, which is broadly divided along ethnic and political lines. The schools involved, like the vast majority of schools in Northern Ireland, educate Protestant and Catholic children separately. This presents particular challenges for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Programs, Urban Schools
Lim, Jae Hoon – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2008
This article is a cross-case study exploring two young African-American adolescent girls' experiences with school mathematics and the impact of the socio-cultural context upon their motivation and mathematical identity. Based on repeated in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation of their mathematics classroom, the researcher portrays…
Descriptors: Females, Cultural Context, Social Capital, African American Students
