Browsing Learning, Teaching and Curriculum electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2011 Spring"
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A case study of international students' goals for academic writing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this qualitative case study is to investigate the nature of international students' experiences with academic writing in English when ... -
Characterizing middle and secondary preservice teachers' change in inferential reasoning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This study characterizes how a cohort of 33 middle and secondary mathematics preservice teachers' inferential reasoning changed while enrolled in a statistics course designed for future teachers. Changes in inferential ... -
The development of veteran 9th-grade physics teachers' knowledge for using representations to teach the topics of energy transformation and transfer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The purpose of this study was to explore and identify the experiences that informed the development of three veteran (experienced) 9th-grade physics teachers' PCK for using representations to teach the topics of energy ... -
Facilitating the development of elementary prospective teachers' pedagogical content knowledge : a case study of a mathematics teacher educator's actions and purposes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Prospective mathematics teachers (PTs) need to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. Therefore, mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) need to help PTs develop PCK ... -
Grade 4-6 student conceptions and utilization of informal and formal variable representations across mathematically equivalent tasks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This study reports how 24 grade 4-6 students in one elementary and middle school interpreted formal (e.g., x + y = 12) and informal representations of variables (e.g., □ + ∆ = 12). While interpretations for variables ... -
Second grade students' interpretations of various representations depicting part-part-whole relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Through a cross-case analysis this study characterizes second-grade students' interpretations of mathematical representations (i.e., contextual ...