Researching mathematics classrooms
Subtitle: a critical examination of methodology
By: edited by Simon Goodchild and Lyn English.
Contributors: Goodchild, Simon, 1950-; English, Lyn D.
Series: International perspectives on mathematics education
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Research -- Methodology
Description: The chapters in this book bring together a wide variety of methods that are applied to exploring what happens in classrooms. In some cases the research activity takes place within the classroom; in others, the research activity is remote from the regular activity of the classroom. The chapters describe the use of interviews, conversations, observation, and questionnaires as means of gathering data. Some chapters describe approaches that aim at minimal disturbance of regular classrooms, while others describe intervention approaches that focus on changing the teachers' strategies or the design of the teaching and learning program. The chapters include examples of the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. [p.xii, ed].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Simon Goodchild and Lyn English; title: Methodology and Methods in Mathematics Education Research: Where Is "The Why"? / Leone Burton; title: Students-Teacher Interactions and the Development of Students' Mathematical Thinking / Maria Manuela David and Maria da Penha Lopes; title: Reaction by Anne Watson; title: Exploring Students' Goals in Classroom Activity / Simon Goodchild; title: Reaction by Barbara Jaworski; title: Special Educational Needs in Mathematics; title: A Problem Developed in School? / Nora Linden; title: Reaction by Cyril Julie; title: A Methodology of Classroom Teaching Experiments / Kay McClain; title: Reaction by Marja Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen; title: Context and Content: What Are Student Teachers Learning about Teaching Mathematics? / Ruth Shane; title: Reaction by Gilah C. Leder; title: Longitudinal Measurement of Student Motivation and Achievement in Mathematics / Shirley M. Yates; title: Reaction by Wendy Keys; title: Afterword: Applying the Theory to the "Practice" in This Book / Leone Burton.