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Filtering by: Advisor Evans, Thomas P. Subject Calculus -- Study and teaching (Secondary)

Relationships among AP calculus teachers' pedagogical content beliefs, classroom practice, and their students' achievement

Creator:

Utter, Frederick W.

Abstract:

This study investigated associations among teachers' pedagogical content beliefs, approaches to teaching, and their students' achievement in a high school Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus setting. The three major research questions concerned: (a) how well Al' calculus teachers' pedagogical beliefs about mathematics, curriculum, and instruction aligned with a constuctivist point of...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
The evolution of student understanding of the concept of derivative

Creator:

Zandieh, Michelle J.

Abstract:

This research seeks to answer the question, "What does it mean for a student to understand the concept of derivative?" A structured way to describe an individual student's understanding of derivative is developed and applied to analyzing the evolution of that understanding for each of nine high school seniors during...

Resource Type:

Dissertation