Over several decades, much attention has been paid to the preparation of K-12 teachers. More recently, the body of literature on graduate teaching assistants' preparation for teaching has begun to increase. Since many graduate teaching assistants are hired as community college and university instructors, it is important to understand how...
The purpose of this investigation was to explore how differences in an elementary mathematics teacher's subject matter knowledge structure impact classroom teaching and student learning. The study included two phases. Phase 1 focused on the selection of a single case. An open-ended questionnaire and interview were used to identify the...
Teacher noticing is a necessary skill in order for teachers to elicit and respond to their
students' mathematical ideas and support the ambitious learning goals of school mathematics. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate what teacher candidates noticed about their teaching as they were provided supports and opportunities...
Design in secondary mathematics teacher education must prepare teacher candidates to do the work of ambitious and equitable mathematics teaching with skill by situating development in the work of teaching and incorporating opportunities to investigate and enact teaching. Teacher education designs must also be responsive to the work that mathematics...
This investigation was designed to determine the extent to which
students who are completing planned curricula in mathematics education
are proficient in spatial visualization abilities and possess mathematical
understandings. The effects of mathematics curricula upon
the development of these abilities and understandings and the relationships
between these abilities and understandings...
Mathematics is permeated with language; it appears in the form of new words and
some old words with new meanings. There are new symbols to be able to read and
consume; much information is presented in tabular or graphic form, and finally the
language in a mathematics class has its...
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable
instrument to determine cognitive domain status of preservice and
inservice elementary teachers in the operation of division with rational
numbers in the context of Wilson's (1971) taxonomy.
The domain was defined with the cooperation of a panel of...
The purpose of this case study was to examine a third-grade teacher’s effective use of mathematical discourse in the classroom setting. The study offers insights into the following research questions: 1) How does a teacher’s engagement in mathematical discourse communities influence her practice and self-efficacy as a mathematics educator? 2)...
The goal of the research project was to assess the effect of a written
intervention on the state anxiety of new mathematics teachers. Twenty-eight
beginning mathematics teachers in Washington, Oregon, and California were
randomly assigned to treatment or control groups. Treatment was a survival
guide, Green Broke, carefully designed to...
The purpose of this study was to describe the development of mathematics
preservice teachers’ technology pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) in a
subject specific, technology integrated teacher preparation program. The study also
investigated the roles of several influential components of the program and the
technology thread throughout the program in supporting...