Educators have realized the importance of engaging students in learning. Teachers often see participatory behaviors like "hand raising" as evidence of students being engaged in an activity. These indications of engagement do not capture motivational factors behind true engagement. A research team developed a five item scale to easily…

The purpose of the present study was to determine if numeral knowledge--the ability to identify Arabic numerals and connect Arabic numerals to their respective quantities--mediates the relation between informal and formal mathematical knowledge. A total of 206 3- to 5-year-old preschool children were assessed on 6 informal mathematics tasks and 2…

Teacher evaluation needs to move to the next generation to become a process facilitating teacher growth and development in a supportive and collaborative way. The articles of this issue were prepared for a conversation on teacher evaluation held by four Florida school districts looking at the next generation of evaluation. (SLD)