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ERIC Number: ED664794
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr-14
Pages: 15
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Difference in the Intellectual Quality of the Mathematics-Learning Environment between Highly Effective and Typical Urban Elementary Schools
Walter G. Secada; Hua Ran; Uma Gadge
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, Apr 11-14, 2024)
Few studies have explored school-level effectiveness and teachers' mathematics instruction within classrooms simultaneously. This study used multiple data sources, including classroom observations and teacher interviews, to understand the mathematical classroom learning environments, and teachers' perceptions and expectations about their students in effective and typical schools. Findings revealed that the overall intellectual quality of learning environments in mathematics gets differentiated by students' ability levels, favoring low-ability students when they were enrolled in effective schools. Our illustrative qualitative examples suggest teachers from effective schools tend to hold positive and high expectations of low-ability students, make accommodations, and adopt individualized instruction to meet their learning needs. Instead, the teacher from typical schools held a static perception of students' poor performance passing between generations.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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