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Whyatt, Duncan; Davies, Gemma; Clark, Gordon – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
A GIS project is an effective means of linking learning "about" GIS and learning "with" GIS, and it can enhance students' employability. However, individual project work creates challenges that could result in failed assessment. Here we adopt a mixed-methods approach to examine how students of mixed abilities cope with GIS…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Coping, Student Projects, Independent Study
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Hitt, Fernando; Dufour, Sarah – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
The first calculus course in the province of Quebec (Canada) is taught in the first year of college (17-18 year-old students) before university. Statistics show that this course is the most difficult one for students at the collegial level and that it prompts many to drop out of school. The literature has highlighted the cognitive problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Calculus, Mathematics Activities, College Mathematics
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Baker, Katherine; Jessup, Naomi A.; Jacobs, Victoria R.; Empson, Susan B.; Case, Joan – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
Productive struggle is an essential part of mathematics instruction that promotes learning with deep understanding. A video scenario is used to provide a glimpse of productive struggle in action and to showcase its characteristics for both students and teachers. Suggestions for supporting productive struggle are provided.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Student Problems
Erin G. Edgington – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative semi-structured interview study investigated how the opportunity to learn with productive struggle emerges in a teacher's beliefs, anticipation, planning, teaching, and response to struggle in learning mathematics. In this study, the experiences of student struggle in the teaching and learning of fractions was investigated through…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction
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Balyer, Aydin; Özcan, Kenan – South African Journal of Education, 2020
As in the rest of the world, teachers' roles have been changing in the Turkish educational system. In this process, their roles have been redefined as technical and social roles. In their technical roles, they focus on regular educational core tasks while in their social roles they dwell upon a wide range of social tasks besides teaching. However,…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Responsibility
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VanDerHeyden, Amanda M.; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology Review, 2018
Assessment is fundamental to school psychology, but its purpose has shifted from making predictions about children to improving outcomes for children. This commentary on the special issue focuses on screening and progress-monitoring decisions that can be used to solve student problems. We outline several psychometric and practical issues that…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Decision Making, Psychological Evaluation, Screening Tests
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Ugurlu, Necla Isikdogan; Kayhan, Nilay – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The objective of this study is to evaluate, according to the opinions of teachers, the problems faced by the children of Syrian families who have taken refuge in Turkey since 2011 with regard to their linguistic and communication skills, as well as their reading and writing process in Turkish as a foreign language. The research group is composed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Vallance, Michael; Towndrow, Phillip A. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2016
In a world where technology has become pervasive in our lives, the notion of IT integration in education practice is losing its significance. It is now more appropriate to discuss transforming pedagogy where technology is not considered a tool anymore but part of what we are. To advance this hypothesis, an enterprising, student-directed approach…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Computer System Design, Computer Simulation, International Cooperation