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How Do Expert and Novice Teachers Monitor and Enhance Student Understanding? Qualitative Comparisons Informing the Design of a Digital Formative Assessment Platform
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Sebastian Gross; Corinna Hankeln; Kim-Alexandra Rösike; Susanne Prediger – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
Digital formative assessment tools have been identified as a promising support for mathematics teachers' practices of monitoring and enhancing students' understanding. However, more research is required to align these support affordances better with teachers' practices. In a qualitative expert-novice comparison, we investigated how expert and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Formative Evaluation
Transformations in Teachers' Views in One-to-One Classes--Longitudinal Case Studies
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Doron, Esty; Spektor-Levy, Ornit – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2019
This qualitative study aimed to examine how teachers in one-to-one (1:1) classrooms changed their views regarding the integration of students' personal laptops over three academic years. Given the relative lack of longitudinal studies in the field of technology in education, this study is unique in tracing transformations in teachers' views. The…
Descriptors: Junior High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Attitude Change
Virtual Experiments or Worked Examples? How to Learn the Control of Variable Strategy
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Liu, Shiyu – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2015
This research investigates the role of virtual experiments and worked examples in the learning of the control of variable strategy (CVS). Sixty-nine seventh-grade students participated in this study over a span of 6 weeks and were engaged in worked example learning and/or virtual experimentation to study the knowledge and procedures associated…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Computer Simulation, Experiments, Research Methodology
Turning Transfer Inside Out: The Affordances of Virtual Worlds and Mobile Devices in Real World Contexts for Teaching about Causality across Time and Distance in Ecosystems
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Grotzer, Tina A.; Powell, Megan M.; Derbiszewska, Katarzyna M.; Courter, Caroline J.; Kamarainen, Amy M.; Metcalf, Shari J.; Dede, Christopher J. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2015
Reasoning about ecosystems includes consideration of causality over temporal and spatial distances; yet learners typically focus on immediate time frames and local contexts. Teaching students to reason beyond these boundaries has met with some success based upon tests that cue students to the types of reasoning required. Virtual worlds offer an…
Descriptors: Ecology, Logical Thinking, Grade 5, Grade 6