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Sugarman, Carling. "Using Topology to Explore Mathematics Education Reform." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/54.
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Mathematics education is a constant topic of conversation in the United States. Many attempts have been made historically to reform teaching methods and improve student results. Particularly, past ideas have emphasized problem-solving to make math feel more applicable and enjoyable. Many have additionally tackled the widespread problem of “math anxiety” by creating lessons that are more discussion-based than drill-based to shift focus from speed and accuracy. In my project, I explored past reform goals and some added goals concerning students' perceptions of mathematics. To do so, I created and tested a pilot workshop in topology, a creative and intuitive field, for use in 4th-6th grade classrooms. Preliminary results suggest some success in altering student views on mathematics.
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Winiecke, Tyler Joseph. "Problems Faced by Reform Oriented Novice Mathematics Teachers Utilizing a Traditional Curriculum." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5608.
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Task-based instruction has been a promising method of instruction advocated by mathematics education researchers over the past twenty years. However traditional curricula constitute a majority of the curricula utilized in the United States. The purpose of this study is to identify the problems reform oriented novice teachers face when utilizing a traditional curriculum to plan task-based lessons. In order to identify these problems three novice teachers' interactions with curricula were observed and characterized using the frameworks of past researchers. Through analysis of teachers' textbook interaction practices it was found that teachers struggled to plan task-based lessons due to issues encountered finding/constructing mathematical tasks, and due to problems associated with being naturally oriented toward procedures while utilizing a traditional curriculum.
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White-Fredette, Kimberly. "What is Mathematics? An Exploration of Teachers' Philosophies of Mathematics during a Time of Curriculum Reform." unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05232009-112403/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from file title page. David W. Stinson, committee chair; Pier A. Junor Clarke, Jennifer Esposito, Brian A. Williams, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 12, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-217).
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Oh, Young-youl. "Korean teachers' intentions toward reform-oriented instruction in mathematics structures underlying teacher change /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3038193.
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Taylor, P. Mark. "Collegial interactions among Missouri high school mathematics teachers : examining the context of reform /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3013034.
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Dolma, Phuntsho. "Investigating Bhutanese mathematics teachers' beliefs and practices in the context of curriculum reform." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95624/1/Phuntsho_Dolma_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigated Bhutanese mathematics teachers' beliefs and practices in the context of curriculum reform. Data collected through survey and classroom observations of practicing teachers revealed that despite positive beliefs about principles embedded in the reformed curriculum, teachers continued to adopt traditional approaches to teaching mathematics. The study identified a number of possible reasons including limited professional development, cultural clashes and challenges in implementing an effective mathematics curriculum in English. The long term implication is that attempts to help pupils achieve levels of mathematical skills that enable them to contribute to the national philosophy of Gross National Happiness need to be grounded in effective teacher development.
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Williams, Linnae Denise. "Understanding Teachers' Change Towards a Reform-Oriented Mathematics Classroom." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2332.
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Within the current mathematics teacher population there are teachers that want to change from traditional teaching styles to become more reform-oriented (i.e. focusing on student understanding rather than procedures). Many of these teachers do not know how to begin this change. This research looks into the tools that are most valuable for teachers as they change from traditional teaching practices to include more reform-oriented teaching practices. Through this phenomenological study, six successful reform-oriented teachers were interviewed to understand what tools they found to be most valuable in their process of change. The interviews uncovered a common guiding principle that facilitates successful change towards reform teaching—focusing on the students' mathematics. This guiding principle led all the teachers to implementing task-based lessons and improving their questioning towards their students. The two tools found to be of most value, reflection and collaboration, are identified and explored. The implications of a reform curriculum are also discussed. Limitations of the study are identified and areas of future research are explored.
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Sidiropoulos, Helen. "The implementation of a mandatory mathematics curriculum in South Africa : the case of mathematical literacy." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06032008-115730.
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Er, S¿¿¿¿d¿¿¿¿ka Nihan. "Perceptions of High School Mathematics Teachers Regarding the 2005 Turkish Curriculum Reform and Its Effects on Students' Mathematical Proficiency and Their Success on National University Entrance Examinations." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1336507934.
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Lamb, Janeen Therese. "Implementing mandated curriculum reform: Sources of support for teacher-meaning making." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2010. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/6580225afdc617a1186d2c7fb3dbe729d90f7a0b32402f589cf45d3dbbb1787e/2577062/64955_downloaded_stream_180.pdf.
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The impetus for this study was a pragmatic concern for the implementation of the Mathematics Year 1-10 Syllabus (Queensland Studies Authority, 2004) at Hillside Primary School (pseudonym). The researcher's involvement with this school was as the Support Teacher: Learning Difficulties 2002-2004. During this time the researcher assisted teachers by working with students who had difficulty acquiring the necessary mathematical skills which enabled them to keep pace with their peers, and actively participate in their environment. During these collaborations it became evident that the teachers had a general unease with the teaching of mathematics, and this became heightened as draft versions of the reform mathematics syllabus became available. Their concern specifically related to the introduction of a range of new content to the primary school syllabus, including a new strand, Patterns and Algebra, as well as the requirement of an investigative pedagogy. The researcher's interest in how teachers make meaning of this mandated curriculum reform was heightened by these concerns. This led the researcher to seek a more informed and sophisticated understanding of how the teachers at Hillside Primary School make sense of, and respond to, mandated curriculum reform. To this end this research study is situated within the research paradigm of constructivism, and informed by the research methodology of symbolic interactionism. This methodology requires the adoption of two distinct stages within the study: 'exploration' and 'inspection' (Blumer, 1998, p. 40). The exploration stage is a familarisation stage, which initially involved interviewing both the school's Principal and Head of Curriculum. From these interviews an instrument was developed and administered to all teachers.;Analysis of these data led to the inspection stage of the study where individual interviews were conducted with all teachers as a way to isolate significant elements within this research site. In this way, this study relied on a mixed methods approach. Analysis of these data led to a series of theoretical perspectives being proposed, which in turn led to the generation of this study's recommendations. Engagement in this two-stage inquiry process has drawn attention to the importance of collaboration between the Principal and teachers in a professional learning community as they make meaning of mandated curriculum reform
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Chen, Qian, and 陈倩. "Teachers' beliefs and mathematics curriculum reform: a comparative study of Hong Kong and Chongqing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45148739.
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Cambray-Nunez, Rodrigo. "Reform process of the mathematics curriculum for basic education in Mexico during 1992-2000." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1272418.
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Salls, Jennifer Jo. "Do professional development practices impact the implementation of a reform mathematics curriculum as measured by student achievement." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3221398.
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Ulubay, Mutlu. "A Survey Of Teachers&." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609061/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation process of the present and newly introduced instructional techniques in new elementary school mathematics curriculum in sixth grade through the reports of teachers, which has been piloted in some specific schools. Moreover, it was aimed to find out the effects of several parameters on implementation, like city where school teachers are working is located, teachers’
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Kyriakidēs, Leōnidas. "Primary teachers' perceptions of policy for curriculum reform in Cyprus : with special reference to mathematics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36105/.
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The thesis reports and analyses findings from an investigation into Cypriot teachers' perceptions of national policy for curriculum reform in primary schools, with special reference to teaching and assessment in Mathematics. Questionnaires were sent to three samples of teachers: a 10% sample of Cypriot teachers randomly selected from the total population (n=257); all teachers in five primary schools (n=51); all beginning teachers (n=123). The latter sample was compared with a sample of English beginning teachers. A response rate of 70% was obtained and statistical analysis was carried out by SPSS-X. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 teachers, mainly as a form of triangulation. There were seven main findings. First, curricular purposes concerning pupils' ability to solve investigations, and to gain mathematical knowledge were seen as equally important; and ability to talk about Mathematics the least important. Second, formative purposes of assessment were accorded most, and summative purposes least importance. Third, teachers agreed with active pedagogy and with the application of mathematics to other subjects. Fourth, they conceptualised assessment as natural part of teaching but paradoxically favoured formally structured techniques of assessment. Fifth, classroom organisation rarely met policy requirements for a balance of whole class, group and individual activities. Sixth, cluster analysis revealed the absence of a collective professional view of the process of curriculum change. Seventh, statistically significant differences in perceptions were associated with characteristics of the class taught but there was no whole school effect. Other influences on perceptions were professional and political. Implications for the implementation of curriculum policy in Cyprus are discussed drawing on the theories of Nias and Fullan. It is argued that a revised policy, emphasising teacher participation and school-based development is needed and this would require a new conception of teacher professionalism. A heuristic model of curriculum change and a short term strategy for curriculum change are outlined.
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Busquini, João Acácio. "A proposta curricular do estado de São Paulo de 2008: discurso, participação e prática dos professores de matemática." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-02072013-133610/.
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A partir da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Brasileira (LDBEN) do ano de 1996, iniciou-se a produção de diversos documentos, tanto de orientações como de definições em torno da organização de conteúdos, ou ainda, sobre as ideias geradoras dessas bases. Surgem daí os Parâmetros, Diretrizes e Orientações Curriculares Nacionais que, juntamente com as inovações educacionais, o desenvolvimento científico, econômico e social, ou mesmo influenciados pela opção política, subsidiam os processos das reformas ou mudanças curriculares produzidas nos estados. Esta pesquisa trata de compreendermos e discutirmos como se estabelecem as relações de (in)compreensões dos professores de Matemática que dela participaram e que atuam na rede de ensino da Secretaria de Estado da Educação de São Paulo: o engajamento dos professores; os elementos facilitadores e dificultadores percebidos por eles nesse processo, e as possibilidades de resistências na prática da sala de aula. Para tanto, produzimos e aplicamos questionários e entrevistas a dois grupos de professores, em três regiões do Estado de São Paulo. Elaboramos, dessa forma, três eixos principais que nortearam nossa pesquisa: o currículo, a competência e a prática docente. Sobre o currículo, pesquisamos suas concepções, as teorias que o influenciam e as pesquisas em Educação e Educação Matemática que fomentam a produção desses documentos. A competência é elemento inovador nos documentos curriculares; ela invade os currículos, porém, produz pluralidade em seu significado. Quanto à formação dos professores, destacamos tanto o conhecimento profissional destes como a resistência elaborada nos seus discursos.The 1996 Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Brasileira (LDBEN) [Brazilian Education Bases and Guidelines Law] paved the way for the production of various strands of literature, involving both guidelines and definitions on the organisation of content and even on the ideas to have generated these bases. The National Curriculum Parameters, Directives and Guidelines soon followed, and, along with innovations in education, scientific, economic and social development and influences from political decisions, have come to subsidise the procedures for curricular reforms or changes produced across each state. This study aims to understand and discuss how (mis)understanding(s) are established on the part of mathematics teachers in the São Paulo state education network by considering teachers engagement, elements which they believe facilitate or complicate the process and practical possibilities for the generation of counterarguments in the classroom. We therefore produced and carried out questionnaires and interviews with two groups of teachers in three regions in the state of São Paulo. This allowed us to develop three strands of focus for our study: the curriculum, teaching competence and teaching practice. In terms of the curriculum, we researched the concepts behind it, the theories to have influenced it and the research into Education and Mathematics Education to have fed the production of the literature. Competence is an innovative element in literature on curricula; it dominates curricula, and yet there is plurality inherent to its meaning. In terms of teacher training, we highlight both professional knowledge and the counterarguments developed in the teachers discourse.
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Fox, Thomas B. Rich Beverly Susan. "Teacher change during the first-year implementation of a reform calculus curriculum in a small, rural high school a case study /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9804931.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1997.Title from title page screen, viewed June 12, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Beverly S. Rich (chair), Roger Day, John Dossey, George Padavil, Michael Plantholt. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 318-324) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Rigelman, Nicole R. "Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving in the Context of Oregon's Educational Reform." PDXScholar, 2002. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1760.
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Implementation of Oregon’s Educational Reform Act (HB 3565 and HB 2991) provides the context for this inquiry as its emphasis on problem solving has impacted mathematics teaching and learning throughout the state. Even though all Oregon teachers are responding to the same policy, their goals in teaching problem solving vary. These goals and these practices are influenced by the way teachers view the role of problem solving in the curriculum. Further, their practice is influenced by their knowledge and beliefs about mathematics content, teaching, learning, and the reform policy. The questions addressed in this study are: (1) What do exemplary middle school math teachers do to engage students in mathematical problem solving? and (2) On what bases do these teachers make decisions about what to emphasize when teaching problem solving? how to teach problem solving?, and when to teach problem solving?
This qualitative study provides a fuller description of Standards-based classroom practice than presently represented in the literature by offering both examples of problem solving practice and the related influences on that practice. It considers the influences of policy, curriculum, professional development, administrators, and colleagues on teachers’ developing practice. The study also grounds the implementation of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM], 2000) in the work of practicing middle school teachers. Finally, the study shows how, for these teachers, their curriculum has played a significant role in developing their perspectives on learning, teaching, and the nature of math, which has in turn, influenced their knowledge, beliefs, and instructional practice.
This study demonstrates that teachers are able to teach in ways consistent with the NCTM Standards when their knowledge and beliefs about practice align with the recommendations. Further, they teach in this manner when professional development experiences are geared toward understanding and developing Standards-based instructional practice, curriculum is consistent with this vision of practice, and administrators and school cultures are supportive of such practice. When these internal and external conditions exist within and for teachers, their students have the opportunity to learn to become “problem solvers,” not just “problem performers.”
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Morar, Tulsidas. "Multiple perspectives on the teaching and learning of mathematics in rural South African schools in the context of national curriculum reform." Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1626.
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This study investigates the teaching and learning of mathematics in four rural schools in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Curriculum 2005 (C2005) - an outcome based curriculum reform initiative that has been introduced to all South African schools. The objective of the study is to investigate the teaching and learning practices of four rural teachers of mathematics in this complex reform milieu. The following broad research question guides this study: "How do teachers interpret and implement the new mathematics curriculum in terms of a political perspective (how teachers and learners are connected to the curriculum); a socio cultural perspective (what adjustments the teacher makes to accommodate the learners' circumstances); and a practical perspective (how the teacher implements the goals of C2001?" The South African situation provides a unique and particularly challenging context for teaching and learning and curriculum reform. It is understood that schools differ - and therefore curriculum issues cannot be solved through general pronouncements but rather viewed from a multiplicity of perspectives. In this thesis, I examine the teaching and learning of mathematics in four rural classrooms in the Eastern Cape. By way of honouring the contextual complexity of the situation, 1 have adopted a multiple perspectives approach to analysing what goes on in these four classrooms. I use a political perspective to help understand how power operates in the curriculum process.I employ a socio cultural perspective to examine how the curriculum process attends to the local circumstances of teachers and learners. A practical perspective is used to examine how the curriculum is implemented in a technical sense. This constructivist interpretive study employs the techniques of case study and narrative inquiry to study the curriculum practices of four teachers. Multiple methods - including interviews, participant observation and video recording - were used to gather data. Narrative accounts of the teaching and learning of mathematics were constructed and then analysed using the three perspectives. The study concludes that the curriculum can be interpreted at different levels formal, perceived, operational and experiential - and each level can be analysed in terms of the political, socio cultural and practical. Bringing these three perspectives together is a challenging, but necessary task in order to understand and act upon the complexities of educational reform in rural South African classrooms.
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Morar, Tulsidas. "Multiple perspectives on the teaching and learning of mathematics in rural South African schools in the context of national curriculum reform." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13622.
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This study investigates the teaching and learning of mathematics in four rural schools in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Curriculum 2005 (C2005) - an outcome based curriculum reform initiative that has been introduced to all South African schools. The objective of the study is to investigate the teaching and learning practices of four rural teachers of mathematics in this complex reform milieu. The following broad research question guides this study: "How do teachers interpret and implement the new mathematics curriculum in terms of a political perspective (how teachers and learners are connected to the curriculum); a socio cultural perspective (what adjustments the teacher makes to accommodate the learners' circumstances); and a practical perspective (how the teacher implements the goals of C2001?" The South African situation provides a unique and particularly challenging context for teaching and learning and curriculum reform. It is understood that schools differ - and therefore curriculum issues cannot be solved through general pronouncements but rather viewed from a multiplicity of perspectives. In this thesis, I examine the teaching and learning of mathematics in four rural classrooms in the Eastern Cape. By way of honouring the contextual complexity of the situation, 1 have adopted a multiple perspectives approach to analysing what goes on in these four classrooms. I use a political perspective to help understand how power operates in the curriculum process.I employ a socio cultural perspective to examine how the curriculum process attends to the local circumstances of teachers and learners. A practical perspective is used to examine how the curriculum is implemented in a technical sense. This constructivist interpretive study employs the techniques of case study and narrative inquiry to study the curriculum practices of four teachers. Multiple methods - including interviews, participant observation and video recording - were used to gather data. Narrative accounts of the teaching and learning of mathematics were constructed and then analysed using the three perspectives. The study concludes that the curriculum can be interpreted at different levels formal, perceived, operational and experiential - and each level can be analysed in terms of the political, socio cultural and practical. Bringing these three perspectives together is a challenging, but necessary task in order to understand and act upon the complexities of educational reform in rural South African classrooms.
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Alawadhi, Nabil. "The impact of computer use in the development of mathematics teaching in primary education." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5829.
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The educational system in Kuwait is intended to provide primary and secondary students with required skills in order to operate in the technical careers commonly undertaken. However, mathematics education lags significantly behind other countries in Kuwait. In the 1997 and 2008 TIMMS international studies of primary and secondary mathematics achievement, Kuwait ranked near the bottom on almost all scores. Thus, improving mathematics education in Kuwait is an issue of serious concern. This research focuses on the question of whether mathematics teaching and learning in Kuwaiti primary schools (grade 4) can be improved through the use of computer-based tools for practice drills and constructive mathematics play. An observational intervention was used in a classroom of 24 children, where students took a pre-test for mathematics achievement, then engaged in a series of exercises through the term and were retested at the end of the term. This was accompanied by a series of in-services and teacher interviews that were conducted within the school, in order to discover attitudes about mathematics teaching and learning and to train teachers in the suggested approaches and techniques. A combined qualitative and quantitative approach included analysis of test scores and interviews with teachers and students. The overall outcomes of the study did show a slight increase in mathematics achievement scores. However, more importantly it showed an improvement in children's and teacher's attitudes to mathematics learning related to the introduction of constructive play activities (derived from the Cambridge University N-RICH program and selected for students based on level of achievement) Overall, the importance of this study is that it provides pragmatic information for Kuwaiti teachers and curriculum designers on improving mathematics teaching and learning.
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Berg, Benita. "Lgr11 – stöd eller begränsning? : Lärares röster om styrdokument och reformens påverkan på deras matematikundervisning." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-26127.
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This thesis examines teachers’ voices on the latest curriculum reform and how teachers experience the impact of the reform on their teaching. The aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge about the conditions of the implementation of a new reform and how the reform controls and empowers teachers’ teaching. I examine the issue using the concepts from curriculum theory and implementation theory as well as visible and invisible pedagogy. Primary school teachers, Grades 1-3 (n=224) within an entire municipality responded to an extensive questionnaire concerning their relation to the reform. The questionnaire was developed from qualitative interviews and questionnaires with open questions. The new curriculum reform tends towards increased control but the results show that the majority of teachers consider both the curriculum and the national examinations for Grade 3 as a support in their teaching and assessment. Most teachers express that the recent curriculum increases their professionalism. Yet there is a tension between positive and negative experiences of the reform, as some teachers express that the new curriculum and the national tests limit their professional freedom while other teachers express that they would like even more detailed support and guidance. There are also teachers who think it is too early to introduce goals, in the form of knowledge requirements and national tests, because it violates the students’ right to develop at their own pace based on their prerequisites. Further, most teachers in the study state that they have been affected by the goals and the national tests, but at a school level a common plan in mathematics and routines to discuss the goals of mathematics education is often lacking. The study also shows that national tests are not used in order to improve the mathematics results of the whole school. The factor analysis shows that there are differences between teachers’ voices depending on their age, their teaching experience, and if they are graduated before or after the reform of 1994. The different expressions can be linked to teachers’ voices of teacher professionalism, of student learning and maturity. The results of the study are of interest for various actors at different educational levels like politicians, curriculum authors and principals. By taking part of the study they have the opportunity to gain more knowledge of how to create good conditions to support teachers to enact the curriculum in their classrooms.
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Bray, Wendy S. Coleman Mary Ruth. "A study of teacher transitions to a reform-based mathematics curriculum in an urban school the interaction of beliefs, knowledge, and classroom practices /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1485.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Education Culture, Curriculum, and Change." Discipline: Education; Department/School: Education.
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Palmberg, Björn. "The influence of national curricula and national assessments on teachers’ beliefs about the goals of school mathematics." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-88067.
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What students should learn in school and therefore also what teachers should teach is an important issue worldwide. Mathematics teaching (and teaching in other subjects) is often regulated by some form of governing text in a written curriculum communcating a set of standards. Another common mean through which policy is communicated is assessments, which for example can convey policy by communicating desirable outcomes in student learning. A common problem with regulating what teachers do through policy means is that it often is difficult to achieve intended changes. This study investigates the impact of a national reform in Sweden initiated in 1994, introducing mathematical competency goals by communicating them through the national curriculum and national assessments. The study is based on analysis of data obtained from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI), which conducted a quality review of upper secondary school mathematics teaching. During this quality review, the SSI collected data on a representative sample of 145 upper secondary mathematics teachers through interviews, observations, and surveys. This was done in 2009 and 2010, which means that the reform from a time perspective has had ample time to exert influence on teachers. In the study the data obtained from the SSI was analyzed in order to answer two questions: have teachers changed their beliefs about the goals of upper secondary school mathematics in line with the intentions of the reform, and why have, or have they not, changed their beliefs about the goals of upper secondary school mathematics in line with the intentions of the reform? In research on teachers’ reception of policy messages, similar to the one introduced in Sweden, it has been found that a common response to these messages is that teachers are positive to the message. However, although positive, teachers have often been found to only adopt superficial properties of the reform while still maintaining a highly traditional view of teaching and the goals of teaching, not consistent with the intentions of the reform. Therefore, the questions in this study were examined by using a model that can explain why teachers, when confronted with a reform message, change their beliefs in profound or superficial ways, or not at all. Through analysis of the SSI-data, measures on constructs of the model were obtained, and with statistical means it was examined whether the model can account for the changes in teachers’ beliefs about the goals of upper secondary school mathematics. The results of the study suggest that the Swedish reform has had a relatively small impact, and that the model can give an explanation to why some Swedish upper secondary teachers of mathematics have changed their beliefs in line with the reform, some have changed them in superficial ways, and some have not changed them in any discernable way. Whether teachers perceive the reform as entailing an important and non-trivial change for them seems to be of utmost importance. The results of this study suggest that if teachers do not perceive this, they will not process the message deeply, which by the results of this study suggest that there is little chance for them to change their beliefs in a profound way. If they however do perceive the message as entailing an important and non-trivial change, this study suggests that chances are greater that teachers will change their beliefs in line with the reform. Teachers’ interest in the subject and their perceptions of the usefulness of the documents communicating the message are then in this study suggested to be important factors influencing whether teachers will process the reform message systematically, which in turn heavily influences whether they will change their beliefs in a profound way. One practical implication, suggested by this study is that when policy communicates a new and non-trivial message with the intention of influencing teachers, it is important that the message is communicated clearly. Such clarity makes it more difficult for a teacher to superficially interpret the message as being in accordance with the teacher’s earlier beliefs, and thus not entail any need for change. However, to attain such clarity of a complex message is not an easy task to accomplish.
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Rabello, Paula Corradi. "Alguns aspectos da proposta de reforma curricular de Euclides Roxo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11005.
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Previous issue date: 2014-10-16This paper discusses some aspects of the reform movement in mathematics education in Brazil during the first half of the twentieth century. We selected as document for analysis the work A Matemática na Educação Secundária, from Euclides de Medeiros Guimarães Roxo, published in 1937. In the work, the author, responsible for the main guidelines for the reform of mathematics education at the time, justifies his proposals supported by the international discussion started in 1908, with the "V International Congress of Mathematics". The analysis of the document points to an ideological conflict between the international reform proposed by Felix Klein, who Roxo has as his main source of reference, and the brazilian movement of curriculum reform. Our study provides evidence that point to the differences between the two proposals. The progressive school in place in Brazil from 1920 until 1940, seeking an education focused on the transformation of society, differs from the german proposal in their curriculum reform that has as primary goal bringing the teaching of mathematics closer to the industrial and scientific development of Germany during the beginning the twentieth century. This aspect is evidenced in our study of the work of Felix Klein, entitled Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint, published in 1945. With this work it was possible to conclud that the influence of Felix Klein became more restricted to speech than to the perception of Roxo on the reform. This would could have happened because, while North America and Brazil had the theoretical foundation based on New School, focusing on the student and on an education capable of reforming society, Germany, with a more stable social situation, sought to leverage industry stimulating the sciences, which would prevent a reproduction of the German reform model in Brazil
Este trabalho discorre sobre alguns aspectos do movimento de reforma do ensino da matemática no Brasil na primeira metade do século XX. Para tanto, selecionamos como documento de análise a obra A Matemática na Educação Secundária, de Euclides de Medeiros Guimarães Roxo, publicada em 1937. Na obra, o autor, responsável pelas principais diretrizes de reforma do ensino de matemática à época, justifica suas propostas apoiando-se sobre a discussão internacional iniciada em 1908, com o V Congresso Internacional de Matemática . A análise do documento aponta para um conflito ideológico entre a proposta de reforma internacional de Felix Klein, que Roxo tem como sua principal fonte de referência, e o movimento de reforma curricular brasileiro. Nosso estudo destaca as diferenças entre as duas propostas. O escolanovismo vigente no Brasil nas décadas de 1920 a 1940, buscando uma educação voltada para a transformação da sociedade, diferencia-se da proposta alemã na medida em que a reforma curricular buscava adequar o ensino da matemática ao desenvolvimento industrial e científico da Alemanha do início do século XX. Tal aspecto é aqui evidenciado em nosso estudo da obra de Felix Klein, intitulada Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint, publicada em 1945. Com esse trabalho foi possível concluir que a influência de Felix Klein ficou mais restrita ao discurso do que à percepção de Roxo a respeito da reforma. Isso teria ocorrido, pois, enquanto a América do Norte e o Brasil tinham como embasamento teórico a Escola Nova, com foco no estudante e em uma educação capaz de reformar a sociedade, a Alemanha, com uma situação social mais estável, buscava alavancar a indústria, estimulando as ciências, o que impossibilitaria uma reprodução do modelo de reforma alemã no Brasil
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Mather, Mary K. "The Contextual, Academic, and Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing Kindergarten Students’ Mathematical Literacy Development." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1102883081.
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Kao, Chao-Yuan. "Grade A Taipei junior high school principals’ self-reported leadership practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/39153/1/Chao-Yuan_Kao_Thesis.pdf.
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The principal’s leadership and curriculum development are considered the core elements for creating a high performing junior high school. In Taiwan, mathematics curriculum reform has been an ongoing topic since 1994. The pedagogy, classroom interactions, and the underlying philosophy of mathematics education have varied with different versions of guidelines. These changes inevitably increase the requirement for principals’ leadership in order to effectively implement the curriculum reform. Principals’ leadership is essential to the success of the implementation in their school. This study aimed to explore and identify the leadership of junior high school principals whose schools had been judged by the Taipei City Government as Grade A junior high schools. Principals’ implementations of the reformed mathematics curriculum were used as examples to generate insights of their leadership. This study drew upon a multiple-case study approach. Data were collected from interviews, observations, and documentations. Bass and Avolio’s (1997) full range leadership theory provided a structure for gaining insight into these principals’ leadership practices. Five Grade A Taipei junior high school principals participated and shared their leadership concepts and experiences. Findings revealed that the leadership preferences of the five principles varied considerably. Management by exception-active, contingent reward, individualised consideration, and idealised influence were Grade A Taipei junior high school principals’ preferred leadership practices. In addition, principals’ leadership strategies associated with these practices were identified. These principals had adopted a range of leadership strategies according to the staff and school needs. Results of this study have implications for both Taiwanese principals and education departments. Principals can enhance their leadership by gaining more understanding about the Grade A principals’ leadership practices and strategies. Taiwanese education departments can improve school leadership training programs by focusing on these practices and strategies, which may also lead to more effective strategies for implementing national curriculum reform.
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Osmanoglu, Aslihan. "Preparing Pre-service Teachers For Reform-minded Teaching Through Online Video Case Discussions: Change In Noticing." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612868/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the changes on what the prospective elementary mathematics teachers noticed as they watched video cases and discussed online. More specially, I wanted to answer the question &ldquoTo what extent the elementary prospective mathematics teachers&rsquo
noticing with respect to reform-minded teaching changes during their video case-based teacher education, in terms of teacher and student roles?&rdquo
With this question in mind, I asked senior prospective mathematics teachers at METU to watch six video cases depicting real elementary mathematics classrooms, and then discuss these cases in an online forum. The research was conducted during the 2008-2009 fall semester. Participants were asked to write reflection papers after watching a video each week. The online discussions took place in Metu Online-Net ClassR online forum, and each discussion was about a long week. The research study was qualitative in nature. Specifically, it was a case study research. Prospective teachers&rsquo
reflection papers on the videos, the online discussions, and interviews with the selected 15 focus participants at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the study were the data sources. The data were analyzed through the qualitative data analysis techniques. The findings suggested that prospective teachers&rsquo
noticing skills with respect to the teacher and student roles in reform-minded teaching and learning were developed throughout the online video-case based discussions.
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Song, Timothy. "Putting Educational Reform Into Practice: The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act On Students, Teachers, and Schools." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2187.
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This thesis seeks to investigate the effects of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on U.S. student achievement and teacher effectiveness. By combining the results from various data sources, I am able to indicate the levels of student preparedness, school spending, and specific classroom practices. After an analysis of my results, I suggest that NCLB has found moderate success in increasing the level of math preparedness for younger students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. On the other hand, the data also suggests that there have been no statistically significant gains in reading achievement after the implementation of NCLB. Additionally, spending by school districts increased a significant amount and NCLB raised teacher pay and the number of teachers entering the profession with graduate degrees. Within schools, NCLB appears to have directed instruction towards math and reading and away from other subjects as teachers strove to achieve proficiency on the new accountability measures implemented by NCLB.
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Silva, Rejane Conceição Silveira da. "Reforma do ensino médio: percepções de docentes de matemática." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FURG, 2013. http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/4813.
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O Brasil nas últimas décadas tem passado por reformas que pretendem melhorar a qualidade da educação. A partir da promulgação da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (LDB), em 1996, o Ensino Médio passa a ser a etapa final da Educação Básica (art. 35), sendo definido como a conclusão de um período de escolarização de caráter geral, ou seja, como parte de um nível de escolarização que tem por finalidade o desenvolvimento do indivíduo, assegurando-lhe a formação comum indispensável para o exercício da cidadania e fornecendo-lhe os meios para progredir no trabalho e em estudos posteriores (art. 22). Nesse sentido, o projeto da reforma busca adequar o currículo dessa etapa de ensino às novas condições sociais, econômicas e culturais impostas pela sociedade tecnológica, promovendo uma nova visão de ensino que atenda aos interesses dos adolescentes e jovens. Compreendendo a importância desse processo e conscientes do papel que o professor desempenha na construção das mudanças, através de uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, buscamos investigar como os docentes de Matemática do Ensino Médio percebem e vivenciam as propostas da reforma iniciada na década de 1990 para esse nível de ensino. Para tanto, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com dez professores de Matemática que atuam no Ensino Médio da rede pública e/ou privada do município de Rio Grande, estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Como método para análise dos dados coletados, utilizamos a Análise Textual Discursiva (ATD) proposta por Moraes e Galiazzi (2007), a qual nos permitiu obter como resultado duas categorias emergentes: (1) as implicações da formação docente, estrutura organizacional e valorização da educação no contexto da reforma, e (2) as concepções dos docentes sobre o Ensino Médio e os desafios de ensinar Matemática. Tais categorias foram discutidas pela interlocução entre a pesquisadora, as falas dos sujeitos e os teóricos que dialogam sobre esses conceitos. A pesquisa mostra que a reforma é ampla e complexa, necessitando de mudanças estruturais, valorização da profissão docente e de políticas de formação de professores que os capacitem para enfrentar as novas e diversificadas tarefas que lhe são atribuídas e também aponta a questão do tempo para sua discussão e o sentimento de solidão manifestado pelos docentes. No Ensino Médio, um dos grandes desafios é estabelecer sua identidade, completando a escolaridade básica necessária a todos os cidadãos e, especialmente, na área da Matemática, fica evidente repensar a formação docente além da visão do especialista para enfrentar os desafios das novas propostas curriculares.
In recent decades Brazil has undergone reforms aimed to improve educational quality. Since the promulgation of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (LDB) in 1996, the High School became the final step of Basic Education (art. 35), defined as the completion of a period of general education, i.e. as part of an educational level aimed at developing the individual, ensuring one‟s indispensable training for exercising citizenship and providing one with the means to advance at work and subsequent studies (art. 22). Thus the reform seeks to adapt the curriculum of this educational level to the new social, economic and cultural conditions imposed by technological society, promoting a new vision of education which meets the interests of adolescents and youth. Understanding the importance of such a process and aware of the role played by teachers in the construction of changes, a qualitative study was carried out to investigate how High School Mathematics teachers perceive and experience the reform proposals initiated in 1990s to this educational level. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Mathematics teachers who work at public and/or private High Schools in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul. Discourse Textual Analysis was used for data analysis as proposed by Moraes and Galiazzi (2007), resulting in two emerging categories: (1) the implications of teacher education, organizational structure and enhancement of education in the reform context, and (2) ideas of teachers on the High School and challenges of teaching Mathematics. These categories were discussed by dialogues between the researcher, the teachers and the theoretical literature on these concepts. This study showed that the reform is broad, complex, and requires structural changes, appreciation of the teaching profession and teacher training policies that enable them to cope with new and diverse tasks assigned to them and also points to the issue of time for discussion and the feeling of solitude expressed by the teachers. In High School, one of the major challenges is to establish an identity, completing the required Basic Education to all citizens. In Mathematics there is the need to rethink teacher education in order to meet the challenges of the new curriculum proposals, going beyond the vision of teachers as experts.
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Maoto, Rose Satsope. "Mathematics teacher learning in the context of South African outcomes-based education reforms." Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/231.
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The new South African national curriculum for the twenty first century adopted an outcomes-based education approach. The new curriculum represents a crucial shift in emphasis from learners concentrating on formal and procedural mathematics (with an absence of meaning) to learners making meaning of mathematics and becoming flexible mathematical thinkers, with problem solving and mathematics investigations as central focus. This study reports on an action research collaboration between two teachers and myself, a university mathematics educator. It was conducted over a period of three years. The main purpose of our collaboration, and this thesis, was to explore mathematics teacher learning in the context of the OBE-based reforms. The data were gathered through questioning, journal keeping by the two teachers and my participant observations. Using the two teachers’ reflective writings and field notes I analysed the data in two stages - narrative analysis and analysis of narratives. What emerged from the study were several issues clustered around three characteristics of teacher learning - teacher learning as situated, teacher learning as social and teacher learning as distributed. These three overlapping characteristics of teacher learning were used as heuristic devices or convenient organisers for the description, analysis and discussion of the issues that emerged. This study revealed several overarching propositions that may have applicability beyond its boundaries. The first proposition is that teachers reflect on and revise their personal practical knowledge if exposed to learning experiences that encourage them to attach meaning to and make sense of the underlying concepts of new curriculum reforms. The second proposition is that interactions with literature improve the quality of teacher learning.The third proposition is that teachers are motivated to experiment with new ideas if they observe these ideas being modelled in practice. The fourth proposition is that teachers develop positive perceptions about learning if the expectations of multiple stakeholders (both in their classrooms and beyond the classrooms) are not contradictory. The fifth proposition is that teachers’ listening to learners’ thinking opens opportunities for explorations. The sixth proposition is that I teachers respond to learners’ learning by being more curious about classroom discussions. The seventh proposition is that teachers who play an active role in collaborative working relationships are more likely to revise their pedagogy. The eighth proposition is that true collaborative relationships take time. The last proposition is teachers who are supported are more likely to distribute their knowledge and learning. Some implications of this study are also highlighted in the last chapter.
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Maoto, Rose Satsope. "Mathematics teacher learning in the context of South African outcomes-based education reforms." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=15037.
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The new South African national curriculum for the twenty first century adopted an outcomes-based education approach. The new curriculum represents a crucial shift in emphasis from learners concentrating on formal and procedural mathematics (with an absence of meaning) to learners making meaning of mathematics and becoming flexible mathematical thinkers, with problem solving and mathematics investigations as central focus. This study reports on an action research collaboration between two teachers and myself, a university mathematics educator. It was conducted over a period of three years. The main purpose of our collaboration, and this thesis, was to explore mathematics teacher learning in the context of the OBE-based reforms. The data were gathered through questioning, journal keeping by the two teachers and my participant observations. Using the two teachers’ reflective writings and field notes I analysed the data in two stages - narrative analysis and analysis of narratives. What emerged from the study were several issues clustered around three characteristics of teacher learning - teacher learning as situated, teacher learning as social and teacher learning as distributed. These three overlapping characteristics of teacher learning were used as heuristic devices or convenient organisers for the description, analysis and discussion of the issues that emerged. This study revealed several overarching propositions that may have applicability beyond its boundaries. The first proposition is that teachers reflect on and revise their personal practical knowledge if exposed to learning experiences that encourage them to attach meaning to and make sense of the underlying concepts of new curriculum reforms. The second proposition is that interactions with literature improve the quality of teacher learning.The third proposition is that teachers are motivated to experiment with new ideas if they observe these ideas being modelled in practice. The fourth proposition is that teachers develop positive perceptions about learning if the expectations of multiple stakeholders (both in their classrooms and beyond the classrooms) are not contradictory. The fifth proposition is that teachers’ listening to learners’ thinking opens opportunities for explorations. The sixth proposition is that I teachers respond to learners’ learning by being more curious about classroom discussions. The seventh proposition is that teachers who play an active role in collaborative working relationships are more likely to revise their pedagogy. The eighth proposition is that true collaborative relationships take time. The last proposition is teachers who are supported are more likely to distribute their knowledge and learning. Some implications of this study are also highlighted in the last chapter.
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Pippenger, Amy T. "A comprehensive literature review and critique on the differences and effects of implementing traditional and reform mathematics curricula." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003pippengera.pdf.
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Colby, Glenn T. "Students' Epistemological Beliefs of Mathematics When Taught Using Traditional Versus Reform Curricula in Rural Maine High Schools." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/ColbyGT2007.pdf.
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Dixon, Kerry. "The Contested Space of STEM-Art Integration: Cultural Humility and Collaborative Interdisciplinarity." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467717193.
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Holzmann, Gwetheldene Louise. "Lessons from the past: An historical analysis of science education (biology) curriculum reforms, 1950 to 1975." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618617.
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The purpose of this study was to determine what relationship existed between preservice science (biology) teacher education and the reforms in secondary school biology that occurred between 1950 and 1975. Research questions were generated which dealt with the collaboration of the various sectors of education as well as if the prospective teachers were being trained to teach the reform curricula through their college science and teacher education coursework.;Content analysis of textbooks was utilized to determine the content of textbooks on the secondary and higher education level. The secondary texts contrasted were Modern Biology and the BSCS Blue and Green series. A variety of textbooks were analyzed for higher education biology including those authored by Villee and Weisz. Teacher education methods textbooks which covered science education or biology teaching were also analyzed. Five topics were analyzed in each of the textbooks: the scientific method, classification, amphibians, heredity, and ecology. The evaluation instrument was adapted from the Curriculum Materials Analysis System for Science (Haussler & Pittman, 1973) and the Virginia Department of Education Science Textbook Evaluation Instrument.;It was hypothesized that the analyses would reveal that innovations and reforms in high school biology textbooks preceded reforms in higher education teacher education programs which would indicate that prospective teachers were not being taught the necessary skills, behaviors, or methods in their required coursework to adequately institute the reforms on the secondary level. It was also hypothesized that the analyses would reveal an inordinately long period of time before prospective teachers were being instructed in the methods necessary for them to function effectively in secondary classrooms with the reform curricula.;It was concluded that there was generally very little collaboration between the various sectors of education during 1950 and 1975. The first hypothesis was confirmed and the second hypothesis supported but not totally confirmed due to the lack of information on how textbooks were actually used in the teacher education classrooms. Further research is needed in this area.;Additional findings of the study indicate that textbooks from the recent past are difficult to locate and thus a significant portion of the history of education is disappearing.
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Malaty, George. "Mathematics and Mathematics Education Development in Finland: the impact of curriculum changes on IEA, IMO and PISA results." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80604.
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Mathematics has got roots in Finland in the last quarter of the 19th century and came to flourish in the first quarter of the next century. In the first quarter of the 20th century, mathematicians were involved in teaching mathematics at schools and writing school textbooks. This involvement decreased and came to an end by the launching of the ‘New Math’ project. Mathematics education for elite was of positive affect to higher education, and this has changed by the spread of education, the decrease of mathematics teaching hours at schools and the changes in school mathematical curricula. The impact of curriculum changes is evident in Finnish students’ performance in the IEA comparative studies, PISA and IMO.
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Gonzalez, Todd Anthony. "Middle-school mathematics curriculum reform in Japan and Georgia." 2005. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/gonzalez%5Ftodd%5Fa%5F200512%5Fma.
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Wey, Tzong-Ming, and 魏宗明. "The Discourse Analysis of Constructivism-based Mathematics Curriculum Reform." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14445746513960707598.
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Abstract Research background Taiwan curriculum reforms go on for decade. The mathematics educators and mathematicians leading the mathematics curriculum reforms.During the curriculum reform period, discursive formation point to truth regimes. The constructivism-based mathematics curriculum initiated various curriculum reform discourses. In discourse research viewpoint, practices formative discourses and discourses also affect the practices.What important discourses represented during the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform? How did they affect to mathematics curriculum reform? This study attempt to examine and interpret the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform texts. Purposes 1. To examine discursive formations and contents of the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform. 2. To examine counter-discursive formations and contents of the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform. 3. The ways in which mathematics curriculum reform discourses operat in elementary schools and junior high schools. Methodology To examine discursive formations and contents of the mathematics curriculum reform of mathematics educators and mathematicians, the author takes critical discourse analysis (CDA) as methodology. Results I. Discursive formations and contents of the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform. 1. The constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform discourses were advocated by the mathematics educators, and base on NCTM Standard 1989. 2. In the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum, maths was seens as problem solving, reasoning, communication and connections. 3. To reconstruct math education goal as problem sovling, and confirm student as learning subject base on constructivism. 4. To reconstruct math classroom interaction style. II. Counter-discursive formations and contents of the constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform. 1. The constructivism-based mathematics curriculum reform counter-discourses were advocated by mathematicians of the Mathematical Society of ROC. The mathematicians formulate the Grade 1-9 Curriculum Guidelines-Mathematics Learning Areas to replace the constructivism-based mathematics in 2003. 2. The mathematicians and the mathematics educators hold different mathematics curriculum ideologies. 3. The constructivism-based mathematics materials are too oversimplified. The mathematicians increase the difficulty of the Grade 1-9 Curriculum Guidelines-Mathematics Learning Areas materials to connect with high school level math. 4. The constructivism-based mathematics reduces students’ numeracy. The mathematicians back to basic of mathematics. III. The ways in which mathematics curriculum reform discourses operat in elementary schools and junior high schools. 1.Authorized official start up the curriculum discourse power. 2.The mathematicians and the mathematics educators used exclude discourse tactic to discourse the Temporary Grade 1-9 Curriculum Guidelines-Mathematics Learning Areas. 3.The mathematics curriculum discoursers formulate Standard or Guidelines, write and examine the math textbooks. 4.Import U.S. Math Wars experences and other discourse such as mass medias. Finally, according to the results, this study recommended some suggestions for mathematics curriculum discoursers, educational administration agencies and further researchers.
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Smith, Stephanie Z. "Impact of curriculum reform on a teacher's conceptions of mathematics." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41614446.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1998.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-212).
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LeSage, Ann. "Reconstructing mathematics practices : two stories of teacher change and curriculum reform." 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=232577&T=F.
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Bowen, Erik W. "Accounting for agency in teaching mathematics understanding teachers' use of reform curriculum /." Diss., 2007. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-12052007-113824/.
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Sadri, Pejmon. "Teaching mathematics for understanding : intentions and practices of an expert middle school mathematics teacher in the context of a reform-based curriculum /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/8657.
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Woods, Melanie. "Mathematics TEKS Connections Program in Texas: Follow-Up Analysis of Teacher Trainers' Attitudes and Systematic Observation of Elementary Mathematics Instruction." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148093.
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The purpose of this study is to examine two components of a statewide professional development program designed to improve mathematics instruction in Texas: perceptions of train-the-participants and mathematics classroom processes during mathematics instruction. The dissertation utilized a multiple journal article format to explore each component as a stand-alone, yet connected, study using data from an evaluation of the statewide professional development program.
The first study explored the impact of the train-the-trainer model used in the professional development program. An online survey was administered to participants to determine their attitudes about a new mathematics curriculum, as well as the potential impact of the curriculum on teacher knowledge and student achievement in mathematics. Descriptive statistics identified the number of trainers who provided professional development in Texas. Independent sample t-tests revealed no statistically significant differences in the attitudes of the participant groups. A content analysis identified themes related to conceptual knowledge, instructional strategies, and classroom interaction as possible impact on teacher content knowledge and student achievement.
The second study examined the long-term effects of the statewide professional development program on mathematics classroom processes from one elementary school district in Texas. Quantitative analysis of the systematic classroom observation indicated significant differences in the classroom processes of teachers who participated versus those who did not participate in the professional development program. Descriptive statistics identified the most frequently observed Setting, Instructional Orientation, and Instructional Practice used by teachers, and t-test identified significant different in the classroom processes of teachers who participated versus those who did not participate in the professional development program.
The findings from this dissertation have implications on mathematics education research. First, curriculum developers should monitor trainers' attitudes about curriculum materials on an on-going basis to establish differences over time. Second, classroom observations should follow professional development to determine the long term effects of the strategies used by teachers during mathematics instruction.
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"Black Males’ Perceptions of Their Teachers’ Curricular Expectations in Culturally Sustaining Mathematics Classrooms." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57254.
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abstract: This study investigates Black male students' perceptions of their teachers' curricular expectations in mathematics classrooms. Curriculum in this study refers to what knowledge students are expected to learn, and the manner in which they are expected to learn it. The topic of this dissertation is in response to persisting and prevailing achievement disparities experienced by secondary Black male students in mathematics. These disparities exist at the school, district, state, and national level. Utilizing an action research methodology, multiple cycles of data collection led to the final iteration of the study, collecting strictly qualitative data and drawing from critical race methodology to address the three research questions.
The three research questions of this study seek to address how Black male students perceive their mathematics teachers’ curricular expectations, what practices they have found to be effective in meeting their teachers’ higher curricular expectations, and to determine how they view the reform practices as part of the intervention. Research questions were answered using one-on-one and focus group interviews, classroom observations, and student journals. An intervention was developed and delivered as part of the action research, which was an attempt at curriculum reform influenced by culturally relevant pedagogy, warm demander pedagogy, and youth participatory action research.
Findings from the qualitative methods, led to four assertions. The first assertion states, despite achievement disparities, Black male students care very much about their academic success. Second, a primary factor hindering Black male students’ academic success, as communicated by participants, is what they are learning and how they are learning it. Speaking to teachers’ expectations, participants believe their teachers want them to succeed and think highly of them. Additionally, participants preferred interactive, enthusiastic, and caring teachers, even if those teachers are academically demanding. Finally, participants found learning mathematics addressing a problem that affects them, while incorporating components that address their invisibility in the curriculum, increased relevance, interest, and academic self-awareness.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2020
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Giles, Nancy Deen. "Variations in mathematics problem-solving support for lower and higher achieving elementary students : a study of the one-on-one instructional practices of teachers who use a reform-based curriculum /." 2009. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.
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Hsu, Hsio-Hao, and 許修豪. "A Study of 4 Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives on the Reforms of Mathematics Curriculum in Taiwan." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31494243642653511796.
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A Study of 4 Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives on the Reforms of Mathematics Curriculum in Taiwan Abstract Mathematics is the most disputed discipline in the entire course of education reform, and thus makes teachers feel wondering and helpless. This research studies the nature and philosophy of mathematics and their meanings in the course of curriculum reform in mathematics in the view of mathematics development and by means of literature analysis, and require into the present situation of primary school curriculum in mathematics by interviews with four experienced teachers, which mutually demonstrate with the literature to achieve the fusion of theory and praxis. Its findings are as follows: The nature and philosophy of mathematics, “fallibilism”, which means mathematics may be fallible and open to the future revision forever. Mathematics should not be limited in the scope of textbooks on this view, but have several and diverse mathematics. Each phrase in the mathematical curriculum reform implies its philosophy, for instance, “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (temporarily)” stresses students’ cognition development while “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (officially)” stresses the progress of mathematical knowledge and ability. Actually, both two is equally important and should be made a close link between them. By classifying four phrases of curriculum reform in the curricular philosophy viewpoint, we find “Curriculum Standards of 1975” and “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (temporarily)” are curricula of modernism while “Curriculum standards of 1993” and “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (officially)” are ones of post-modernism. While compiling teaching plans, teachers should think of being transformative intellectuals, examine and design curriculum by the inspiration of the IEA three curricula, and make the curriculum transformation well to achieve the aims of the curriculum. According to the findings, this research proposed 9 suggestions: 1. Maintaining self-consciousness of philosophy in mathematics frequently. 2. Defining mathematical knowledge with more precise words, symbols and logic. 3. Increasing the time of teaching mathematics. 4. Emphasizing the curriculum transformation. 5. Stressing the mathematical history adding to curriculum. 6. Designing curriculum consistently. 7. Taking account of communication and promotion of curricular policies and ideas. 8. Examining curriculum design timely. 9. Teachers should strengthen the perception of the reforms of the curriculum. Keywords: philosophy of mathematics, elementary school curriculum of mathematics, modernism, post-modernism
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Hsu, Hsiou-Hao, and 許修豪. "A Study of 4 Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives on the Reforms of Mathematics Curriculum in Taiwan." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07143927794434226284.
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碩士國立臺東大學
教育研究所
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Mathematics is the most disputed discipline in the entire course of education reform, and thus makes teachers feel wondering and helpless. This research studies the nature and philosophy of mathematics and their meanings in the course of curriculum reform in mathematics in the view of mathematics development and by means of literature analysis, and require into the present situation of primary school curriculum in mathematics by interviews with four experienced teachers, which mutually demonstrate with the literature to achieve the fusion of theory and praxis. Its findings are as follows: The nature and philosophy of mathematics, “fallibilism”, which means mathematics may be fallible and open to the future revision forever. Mathematics should not be limited in the scope of textbooks on this view, but have several and diverse mathematics. Each phrase in the mathematical curriculum reform implies its philosophy, for instance, “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (temporarily)” stresses students’ cognition development while “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (officially)” stresses the progress of mathematical knowledge and ability. Actually, both two is equally important and should be made a close link between them. By classifying four phrases of curriculum reform in the curricular philosophy viewpoint, we find “Curriculum Standards of 1975” and “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (temporarily)” are curricula of modernism while “Curriculum standards of 1993” and “The One-to-Nine Grade Curriculum Guidelines (officially)” are ones of post-modernism. While compiling teaching plans, teachers should think of being transformative intellectuals, examine and design curriculum by the inspiration of the IEA three curricula, and make the curriculum transformation well to achieve the aims of the curriculum. According to the findings, this research proposed 9 suggestions: 1. Maintaining self-consciousness of philosophy in mathematics frequently. 2. Defining mathematical knowledge with more precise words, symbols and logic. 3. Increasing the time of teaching mathematics. 4. Emphasizing the curriculum transformation. 5. Stressing the mathematical history adding to curriculum. 6. Designing curriculum consistently. 7. Taking account of communication and promotion of curricular policies and ideas. 8. Examining curriculum design timely. 9. Teachers should strengthen the perception of the reforms of the curriculum.
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Chenoby, Helen. "The role of ICT in student engagement in learning mathematics in a preparatory university program." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25852/.
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The steady decline of students’ competency in mathematics has become known as the “Mathematics Problem”. Researchers identified that the level of student engagement is one of the most important factors affecting the academic performance of mathematics students. Strong link between students’ attitudes towards the use of technology for learning mathematics and their achievements also has been identified by recent studies. The mathematical problems have a multidimensional source and are initiated from the students’ personal characteristics and attitudes. Thus attitude is important educational concept about learning mathematics with technology. The association between student engagement and the use of ICT suggests that a positive attitude toward the use of ICT in learning mathematics is an important outcome in itself, especially when ICT is used. Student engagement can be influenced by a plethora of factors. These factors include student personal characteristics, learning experiences, perceptions, three aspects of engagement (cognitive, affective and behavioural) and attitudes towards the use of technology in learning of mathematics. This study is aimed at further investigating the factors that might be affected by the use of ICT with two major purposes: (1) to investigate the complex interrelationships between students’ demographic factors, mathematics confidence, access to technology outside university, confidence with technology, perception towards the use of technology for learning and attitude towards learning mathematics with technology, cognitive, affective and behavioural engagement; and student achievement and (2) to determine if the use of ICT impacts on the level of student engagement and achievements in mathematics.