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McKenna, Corey – Educational Renaissance, 2014
The purpose of this multi-case study was to discover the causes of low self-efficacy for math for a group of historically low-performing 7th grade students at a high-poverty urban middle school based upon Bandura's (1986) Social Cognitive Theory, specifically the concept of self-efficacy. Qualitative methods were used to collect data, including…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Middle School Students, Social Cognition, Self Efficacy
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Fueyo, Vivian; Roy, George; Vahey, Phillip – Educational Renaissance, 2013
By leveraging the strengths and commitments of each of the partners, a university, a private nonprofit, and a middle-sized urban school district, collaborated to impact student learning of key concepts in middle-grade mathematics and to change mathematics teaching. The project targeted middle grades mathematics because success in it is the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods