Large-Scale Studies in Mathematics Education

In recent years, funding agencies like the Institute of Educational Sciences and the National Science Foundation have increasingly emphasized large-scale studies with experimental and quasi-experimental designs looking for 'objective truths'. Educational researchers have recently begun to...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Middleton, James A. (Editor), Cai, Jinfa (Editor), Hwang, Stephen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Research in Mathematics Education
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One Introductory Section
  • Chapter 1. On the Need for, and Traditions of, Large-Scale Research in MathematicsEducation.-  Part Two Methodological issues
  • Chapter 2. Measurement Issues in Large-Scale Mathematics Classroom Observation Protocols
  • Chapter 3. Building Item Generation Environments Using Construct-Centered Design with Learning Trajectories in Mathematics.- Part Three Curriculum and Instruction
  • Chapter 4. Curriculum and Implementation Effects on High School Students' Mathematics Learning.- Chapter 5. Learning Mathematics Using Standards-Based and Traditional Curricula: An Analysis of Homework Problems.- Chapter 6. Gains in Teachers' Knowledge and Changes in Instruction: A Three-Year Study of Mathematics Knowledge, Beliefs, and Teaching
  • Chapter 7. Factors Influencing STEM Preparedness: From Algebra to Calculus
  • Chapter 8. Effectiveness of Schema-Based Instruction for Improving Seventh-Grade Students' Proportional Reasoning
  • Chapter 9. A Randomized Trial of Lesson Study: Impact on Teachers' and Students' Knowledge of Fractions
  • Part Four National and International Studies
  • Chapter 10. How is Students' Mathematics Knowledge Changing? Evidence from NAEP
  • Chapter 11. Teacher Practices and Eighth Grade Students' Mathematics Achievement: Examining International Patterns
  • Chapter 12. Measuring the Impact of Teacher Education on Learning to Teach Mathematics
  • Chapter 13. Factors Influencing Participation in Mathematics and Physics
  •  Chapter 14. Effect of Intervention on Conceptual Change of Decimals in Chinese Elementary Students
  • Chapter 15. Virtual Algebra Study, Jessica Heppen (American Institutes for Research) and her colleagues.-Part Five Looking into the future
  • Chapter 16. Summary of Methodological Considerations for Large-Scale Research in Mathematics Education
  • Chapter 17. Commentary 1. Jeremy Kilpatrick
  • Chapter 18. Commentary 2. Alan Schoenfeld
  • Chapter 19. Commentary 3. Ed Silver
  • Chapter 20. Where the field needs to go?.