The case of Edward Lee Thorndike has posed a historical riddle for mathematics educators. This riddle emerged as American education was modernized through psychology duri[...]

I examined how 8 experienced secondary mathematics teachers used interactive whiteboards (IWBs) to elicit student thinking. The study design used a two-phase process: (1)[...]

Multiple-choice tests commonly administered in undergraduate biology courses often emphasize factual recall and fail to develop students' critical thinking skills. Since[...]

Researchers have consistently investigated Black American learners’ academic performances in mathematics from a race-based perspective. Those who adamantly oppose such ga[...]

Data are everywhere. Data collected from samples are often reported in the form of polls, medical studies, and advertisement information and an understanding of sampling [...]

Informed by feminist standpoint theory, this research study portrays the experiences of seven adolescent girls in a feminist mathematics classroom in an all-girls summer [...]

Science educators have used field trips to enhance classroom instruction for many years. This dissertation presents two studies examining what is known about field trips [...]

Teacher professional development is essential to improve our schools efforts in teaching algebra. This study explores classroom practices and collaboration patterns of m[...]

Four elementary preservice teachers participated in a field-based mathematics methods course about childrens mathematics with respect to numbers and operations and discus[...]

This study considers the practicality of creating a mathematical community of practice among mathematics middle school teachers in a 14-week PD experience. The concept of[...]

This study used hands-on and missing-value word problems to examine preservice middle and high school teachers knowledge resources when inferring directly and inversely p[...]

The goal of this study was to investigate high school mathematics teachers instructionalpractices with contextual problems and their notions of terminology associated wit[...]

In light of the low representation of women in high-level technological jobs, many studies have addressed the issue of gender differences in mathematics. This study inves[...]

Since the implementation of school uniforms in the 1950s, much controversy and debate has developed between parents and schools over the rights and privileges of the stud[...]

This study investigated perservice teachers' decisions about use of the graphing calculator during instruction. Particularly, the study noted how the graphing calculator [...]

The debate over teacher qualifications has been characterized by two opposing factions - professionalization and deregulation. The former supports high standards for cert[...]

My study (1) investigated the views and abilities that emerged when 7th grade students apprenticed as paleoanthropologists using 3-D, extinct, hominin skull replicas, (2)[...]

The need for high quality teachers of school mathematics has never been greater. A call for high quality mathematics teachers in the United States was made recently with[...]

The purpose of this study was to understand teachers experiences and beliefs of the teaching of evolution within the context of public schooling in Georgia. In support o[...]

Science teacher preparation courses provide a foundation for many future science educators in educational theory and practice. This dissertation focuses on one pre-servic[...]

This study examined what identities four African American college mathematics literacy workers (CMLWs) and high school mathematics literacy workers (MLWs) of the Young Pe[...]

The present study explores the association between self-reported teaching practices used by teachers and the students achievement. Also, this study includes the extent to[...]

This study deals with the use of scaffolding in inquiry-based approaches to teaching about physics concepts and science teaching skills. Data analyzed include interviews[...]

The introduction of the personal computer in the late 1970s, the creation of the World Wide Web, and other forces within higher education, such as pressures to reduce ope[...]

This collective case study examined how five K-12 science teachers taught about climate change during Fall 2013, and asked how the University of Georgia can support clima[...]