Teachers may be attracted to the use of a game in a learning activity under the presumption that students will find the game experience to be more “fun” than typical classroom activities. The use of a game in a learning activity should help students attain important learning outcomes and engage...
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Thomas P. Dick
Teachers may be attracted to the use of a game in a learning activity
This study investigated how the use of supercalculators
(HP 28S and HP 48SX) affects students' conceptual understanding of
differential and integral calculus. Students (n = 324) from 12
institutions throughout the United States studied an experimental
curriculum emphasizing multiple representations (symbolic,
numerical, graphical). (The curriculum was developed through the
Oregon...
The purpose of this study was to investigate teaching models that may aid in
improving student's understanding of how to interpret graphs of kinematic variables.
The teaching models that were considered incorporated the use of cooperative groups
and calculator-based laboratory instruments, alone and in concert. The subjects used in
this...
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...
A concept image is that collection of all images, pictures, symbols, definitions
and properties associated with any given mathematical concept. One of the
most important components in the mental representation of concepts in the concept
image of advanced mathematical thinkers is visualization. This component, in
turn, is indispensable in the...
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...
The purpose of this study was to address the implementation fidelity of one part of a professional development model developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). Specifically, this research investigates middle school teachers’ use of a formative feedback guide developed by NWREL staff, examining the reliability with which teachers...
The purpose of this article is to explore student reasoning with regard to problems in logic, particularly those related to the Principle of Mathematical Induction (PMI). The five case studies presented build off of work done by other researchers, most notably Dubinsky and Harel, who both looked at how students'...
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Thomas P. Dick
The purpose of this article is to explore student reasoning with regard to
A 2-year field study was conducted on the effects of two sulfur
fertilizers (calcium sulfate or elemental S, 0 or 50 kg S ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹)
on the distribution of sulfur fractions (inorganic sulfate, C-bonded,
ester sulfate, and residual S), arylsulfatase enzyme activity, and
microbial biomass carbon (C) and sulfur (S)...
