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A Conceptual Framework for Formative Assessment in Large-Enrollment Introductory Statistics
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Hadfield, Kimberleigh Felix – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2023
Implementing formative assessment in large-enrollment statistics courses is recommended by mathematics and statistics education communities. Yet research maintains that large-enrollment courses employ few, if any, formative assessments, exacerbating negative attitudes toward statistics and low student achievement. This conceptual essay applies an…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Introductory Courses, Statistics Education, Large Group Instruction
Students' Mathematics Achievement in Mindanao Context: A Meta-Analysis
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Callaman, Roar Abalos; Itaas, Estela Corro – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2020
Over the years, there have been several studies exploring the factors affecting mathematics achievement. However, no study, specifically in the Mindanao context has attempted to summarize or illustrate the model for these sets of studies. This study aims to analyze the overall effect size of the factors on the student's achievement in mathematics.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Skills, Student Attitudes
What We Know about Mathematics Teaching and Learning. EDTALK.
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Kober, Nancy – 1991
Promoting community awareness and understanding of the issues encompassed within the teaching and learning of school mathematics, and involving parents in their children's mathematics education are the first steps toward the goal that every child must gain mathematical power. This document helps to answer some of the most frequent questions that…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Calculators, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
Predicting Girls' Learning Behaviour in Secondary School Mathematics Lessons from Motivational and Learning Environment Factors.
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Norwich, Brahm – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1994
Reports on a study of 70 secondary female students in mathematics classes over a period of 7 weeks. Finds that self-efficacy was the best predictor of learning intentions. Recommends further research on the relationships between perceived learning environment, self-efficacy, and learning intentions. (CFR)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Environment, Females, Foreign Countries
Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring in Math: Outcomes and Their Design Implications
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Robinson, Debbie R.; Schofield, Janet Ward; Steers-Wentzell, Katrina L. – Educational Psychology Review, 2005
This review of the literature on peer and cross-age tutoring emphasizes programs in mathematics and suggests that such programs have positive academic outcomes for African American and other minority students as well as for White students who participate as tutors, as tutees, or both. Such programs also appear to have a positive impact on a…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Cross Age Teaching, Mathematics Instruction
How Do ITE Programmes Support Pre-Service Primary Teachers to Become Competent and Confident Teachers of Mathematics? A Systematic Review of Interventions Trialled in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland
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Pisaneschi, June – Scottish Educational Review, 2020
Supporting pre-service primary teachers to develop the required specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics is a complex task. The knowledge required for mathematics teaching at primary level is multi-faceted and the efficacy of mathematics teaching is inextricably intertwined with a teacher's own beliefs and attitudes about mathematics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers