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Belfield, Clive; Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2015
This paper examines the returns to math courses relative to courses in other subjects for students in community college. Using matched college transcript and earnings data on over 80,000 students entering community college during the 2000s, we find that college-level math coursework has an indirect positive effect on award completion that is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Willett, Terrence – Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group), 2013
Prior research suggests that using high school transcripts may improve English and math placement accuracy at colleges. Between 2012 and 2013, the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) conducted the Student Transcript Enhanced Placement Study (STEPS) in partnership with the California Community Colleges…
Descriptors: Transcripts (Written Records), Student Records, Academic Records, High School Students
Howell, Tracey H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In an era of new standards and emerging accountability systems, an understanding of the supports needed to aid teachers and students in making necessary transitions in mathematics teaching and learning is critical. Given the established research base demonstrating the importance of justification and reasoning in students' mathematics learning and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Mathematical Logic, Teacher Expectations of Students
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Dalton, Ben; Ingels, Steven J.; Fritch, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This First Look introduces new data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, collected in 2013 when most sample members were recent high school graduates, and in 2014 from the high school transcripts of students who were freshmen in 2009. The analyses examine students' high school completion status; plans for postsecondary enrollment and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Graduation Rate, High School Graduates
Bannister, Nicole A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation seeks to understand how teachers learn through interactions in newly formed workplace communities by examining how mathematics teachers engaged in equity-oriented reforms frame problems of practice. It examines how teachers' framings develop over time, and how teachers' shifting frames connect to their learning in a community of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Problems, High School Students, Ethnography
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Shafer, Kathryn G. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
This paper reports the results of a doctoral research pilot study that paired a researcher with an experienced classroom teacher for a 12-week time span with the goal of effectively integrating the use of Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP) into the classroom teacher's practice. Using a teacher development experiment, the researcher created an…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Doctoral Programs