ERIC Number: ED630159
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 10
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Exploring Teachers' Responsiveness to Children's Fraction Thinking and Relationships to Fraction Achievement
Empson, Susan B.; Jacobs, Victoria R.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (43rd, Philadelphia, PA, Oct 14-17, 2021)
Identifying components of teaching that make a difference in children's learning is an ongoing challenge in our field. Focusing on teaching that is responsive to children's fraction thinking, we decomposed responsiveness into the instructional practices of questioning to support and extend children's thinking, noticing children's thinking, and anticipating children's thinking. We worked with 49 teachers in grades 3-5 in multiyear professional development and assessed their expertise in each of the practices. We also assessed their students' fraction achievement at the beginning and end of the school year. Correlational analyses revealed significant moderate relationships among teachers' expertise in the three practices, and a multilevel regression analysis revealed significant positive relationships for both expertise in teacher questioning and years of professional development with children's fraction achievement. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630060.]
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Thinking Skills, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Correlation, Teacher Competencies, Expertise, Questioning Techniques, Attention, Word Problems (Mathematics)
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 3; Primary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL1712560
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