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Halverson, Richard; Wolfenstein, Moses; Williams, Caroline C.; Rockman, Charles – E-Learning, 2009
This article describes how the design of digital learning objects can spark professional learning. The challenge was to build learning objects that would help experienced special education teachers, who had been teaching in math classes, to demonstrate their proficiency in middle and secondary school mathematics on the PRAXIS examination. While…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Special Education Teachers
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Nikos, Klaoudatos; Stavros, Papastavridis – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2004
In this paper, we describe the skeleton of two teaching units, based on a Model for teaching mathematics, Context Orientated Teaching (COT). The first teaching unit concerns the proof of a mathematical proposition, while the second one concerns the solution of an open problem. Both are taught in the 10th grade, under the specific conditions of the…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Models, Context Effect
Sheehan, Kathleen; Mislevy, Robert J. – 1994
The operating characteristics of 114 mathematics pretest items from the Praxis I: Computer Based Test were analyzed in terms of item attributes and test developers' judgments of item difficulty. Item operating characteristics were defined as the difficulty, discrimination, and asymptote parameters of a three parameter logistic item response theory…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment
Hoines, Marit Johnsen, Ed.;; Fuglestad, Anne Berit, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This document contains the third volume of the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Inclusion and Diversity". A total of 65 research reports are presented here: (1) A Teacher's Model of Students Algebraic Thinking…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Psychology