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Reducing the Gender Gap in Students' Physics Self-Efficacy in a Team- and Project-Based Introductory Physics Class
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Espinosa, Tobias; Miller, Kelly; Araujo, Ives; Mazur, Eric – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Self-efficacy represents an individual's belief that he or she can perform a particular task in a given domain. It is a strong predictor for performance and persistence in STEM education. Research shows that there is a large and persistent gender gap in student self-efficacy in STEM academic disciplines. In some cases, active teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, STEM Education
Conceptual Transformation and Cognitive Processes in Origami Paper Folding
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Tenbrink, Thora; Taylor, Holly A. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2015
Research on problem solving typically does not address tasks that involve following detailed and/or illustrated step-by-step instructions. Such tasks are not seen as cognitively challenging problems to be solved. In this paper, we challenge this assumption by analyzing verbal protocols collected during an Origami folding task. Participants…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Protocol Analysis, Task Analysis
Jump as Far as You Can [Problem Solvers: Solutions]
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Yigit, Melike; Bofferding, Laura; Warnock, Miranda – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
The How Far Do You Think You Can Jump? activity (see EJ1174770) was completed in three different contexts: an after-school mathematics enrichment program at Woodland and Country Schools in Weston, Massachusetts; a small-group pull-out of second graders at Wren Elementary in Piedmont, South Carolina; and a family math night in Lafayette, Indiana.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Competition, Athletics
Teaching Math Problem Solving Using a Web-Based Tutoring System, Learning Games, and Students' Writing
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Maloy, Robert W.; Edwards, Sharon A.; Anderson, Gordon – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2010
This article describes the use of "4MALITY", a web-based mathematics tutoring system, with 125 Massachusetts fourth graders and their teachers in three rural school districts during the 2007-2008 school year. At the outset, "4MALITY" was envisioned as a stand-alone web based system providing tutorial support to individual…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Creative Writing, Problem Solving, Grade 4
Horace's Fridays.
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Murdock, Linda A.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1995
On Fridays, rather than changing classes, the students at one middle school spend all four team periods with one teacher/adviser as they pursue intensive, independent quarterly learning projects in either science, math, social studies, or English. A program evaluation showed improved student engagement, independent learning, thinking skills, and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Independent Study, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Strategies for Managing Statistical Complexity with New Software Tools
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Hammerman, James K.; Rubin, Andee – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
New software tools for data analysis provide rich opportunities for representing and understanding data. However, little research has been done on how learners use these tools to think about data, nor how that affects teaching. This paper describes several ways that learners use new software tools to deal with variability in analyzing data,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers