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How Partnerships Are Core to a Linking Research and Practice Agenda
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Fonger, Nicole L. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Partnerships between researchers and teachers are central to stimulating advancements in a linking research and practice agenda. This paper addresses two key aims. First, research on supporting students' representational fluency in technology-rich algebra learning environments is used to illustrate a linking research and practice agenda. Three…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Algebra
Equivalence and Equation Solving with Multiple Tools: Toward an Instructional Theory
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Fonger, Nicole L. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
This research study was specifically concerned with the development, testing, and revision to an instructional theory for studying the mathematical concepts of equivalence and equation solving with multiple representations and multiple tools. Following a design research approach, a collaborative teaching experiment was conducted with a ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts, Educational Theories
Piaget, Inhelder and "Minecraft"
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Schifter, Catherine C.; Cipollone, Maria; Moffat, Frederick – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
This paper describes an exploratory study observing the use of "Minecraft" (a popular sandbox style online video game environment) in a high school English literature classroom. We use Piaget and Inhelder's (1969) constructivist theories about the formal operational stage of development to interpret the concepts of plot and…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Games, High Schools, English Literature
Bully-Victimization Scale: Using Rasch Modeling in the Analysis of a Qualitative Scale
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Lehto, Marybeth – Online Submission, 2009
The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the data from the qualitative study fit Rasch model requirements for the definition of a measure, as well as to address concern in the extant literature regarding the appropriate number of items needed in analysis to assure unidimensionality. The self-report victimization scale was…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, High School Students, Grade 9, Bullying
Formative Assessment for College Readiness: Measuring Skill and Growth in Five Key Cognitive Strategies Associated with Postsecondary Success
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Conley, David; Lombardi, Allison; Seburn, Mary; McGaughy, Charis – Online Submission, 2009
This study reports the preliminary results from a field test of the College-readiness Performance Assessment System (C-PAS), a large-scale, 6th-12th grade criterion-referenced assessment system that utilizes classroom-embedded performance tasks to measure student progress toward the development of key cognitive skills associated with success in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Performance Tests
Building Theories: Working in a Microworld and Writing the Mathematical Notebook
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Cerulli, Michele; Mariotti, Maria Alessandra – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In the framework of a long term teaching experiment we present an Educational approach based on the use of a dynamic geometry software and a symbolic manipulator. Here we present the general ideas of the followed approach focusing on how meanings can originate from phenomenological experience and evolve under the guidance of the teacher. In…
Descriptors: Geometry, Teaching Methods, Experiments, Grade 9