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Direct linkAzevedo, Flavio S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
Based on a three-year-long ethnography of the hobby of model rocketry, I present a practice-centered theory of interest relationships--that is, the pattern of long-term, self-motivated engagement in open-ended practices that has been theorized under the concept of "individual interests". In contrast to extant theories of individual interests, in…
Descriptors: Interests, Ethnography, Vocational Interests, Barriers
Shechtman, Nicole; Roschelle, Jeremy; Haertel, Geneva; Knudsen, Jennifer – Cognition and Instruction, 2010
Using data collected in 125 seventh-grade and 56 eighth-grade Texas classrooms in the context of the "Scaling Up SimCalc" research project in 2005-07, we examined relationships between teachers' mathematics knowledge, teachers' classroom decision making, and student achievement outcomes on topics of rate, proportionality, and linear…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Characteristics, Decision Making
Falk, Ruma – Cognition and Instruction, 2010
To conceive the infinity of integers, one has to realize: (a) the unending possibility of increasing/decreasing numbers (potential infinity), (b) that the cardinality of the set of numbers is greater than that of any finite set (actual infinity), and (c) that the leap from a finite to an infinite set is itself infinite (immeasurable gap). Three…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Experiments, Children, Adults
