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Proficiency and Beliefs in Learning and Teaching Mathematics: Learning from Alan Schoenfeld and Günter Törner (Mathematics Teaching and Learning)

Efforts to improve mathematics education have led educators and researchers to not only study the nature of proficiency, beliefs, and practices in mathematics learn¬ing and teaching, but also identify and assess possible influences on students’ and teachers’ proficiencies, beliefs, and practices in learning and teaching mathematics. The complexity of these topics has fascinated researchers from various back¬grounds, including psychologists, cognitive or learning scientists, mathematicians, and mathematics educators. Among those researchers, two scholars with a similar background – Alan Schoenfeld in the United States and Günter Törner in Germany, are internationally recognized for their contributions to these topics. To celebrate their 65th birthdays in 2012, this book brought together many scholars to reflect on how their own work has built upon and continued Alan and Günter’s work in mathematics education. The book contains 17 chapters by 33 scholars from six different education systems. This collection describes recent research and provides new insights into these topics of interest to mathematics educators, researchers, and graduate students who wish to learn about the trajectory and direction of research on these issues.

Profile konfessioneller Erwachsenenbildung in Hessen: Eine Programmanalyse

Wolfgang Seitter untersucht Angebots- und Inhaltsprofil(e) konfessioneller Erwachsenenbildung in Hessen. Im Zentrum stehen fünf Programmhefte der evangelischen und katholischen Erwachsenenbildung in kontrastierenden Regionalkontexten. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigen die Komplexität, Variationsbreite und Tiefendimension konfessioneller Bildungsarbeit auf. Sie dokumentiert sich in einer Vielfalt von Anspracheformaten, semantischen Feldern, Methoden, Darbietungs- und Erarbeitungsmodi und spricht den Menschen in spiritueller, kognitiver, emotionaler, körperlicher und aktionaler Perspektive gleichermaßen an. Die anthropologischen Entsprechungen einer derart lebensbreiten, lebenslangen und lebenstiefen Bildungsarbeit äußern sich in einer sinnesbezogenen, biographie- und gemeinschaftsorientierten sowie eindrucks- und ausdrucksstarken Bildung, die sich in spezifischen Raum- und Zeitdimensionen manifestiert und die Mensch, Welt und Gesellschaft in einer doppelten Codierungsperspektive ansprechen kann.

A Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000 (RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education)

The nation's 275,000 community college instructors teach over 5,500,000 students, or over one-third of all college students in the US. However, community colleges and their instructors have received little attention in either the academic or popular press. This book presents the results of an unprecedented national study of the community college professoriate. It offers insights into a wide variety of their attitudes and practices, and includes chapters on such crucial topics as instruction, satisfaction, professional involvement, and the use of reference groups. In addition, it provides a unique longitudinal perspective on community college faculty by updating a major study of the professoriate conducted in the 1970s. The book debunks some popular myths regarding community college faculty, such as notions that collaborative teaching and in-class technology have become more prevalent. In addition, it offers a portrait of the professoriate as increasingly diverse, as well as increasingly fragmented. The book concludes with practical recommendations for administrators and faculty interested in improving the quality of faculty lives, and faculty practice, at their institutions.

A Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000 (RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education)

The nation's 275,000 community college instructors teach over 5,500,000 students, or over one-third of all college students in the US. However, community colleges and their instructors have received little attention in either the academic or popular press. This book presents the results of an unprecedented national study of the community college professoriate. It offers insights into a wide variety of their attitudes and practices, and includes chapters on such crucial topics as instruction, satisfaction, professional involvement, and the use of reference groups. In addition, it provides a unique longitudinal perspective on community college faculty by updating a major study of the professoriate conducted in the 1970s. The book debunks some popular myths regarding community college faculty, such as notions that collaborative teaching and in-class technology have become more prevalent. In addition, it offers a portrait of the professoriate as increasingly diverse, as well as increasingly fragmented. The book concludes with practical recommendations for administrators and faculty interested in improving the quality of faculty lives, and faculty practice, at their institutions.

Profilierung Sozialer Arbeit online: Innovative Studienformate und Qualifizierungswege

Welches Potenzial haben online-gestützte Lehr-Konzepte im Bereich Soziale Arbeit? Anhand konkreter Beispiele beschreiben die Autorinnen und Autoren neuartige Qualifizierungswege und Studienformate mit digitalen Medien. Erfolgsfaktoren und Herausforderungen werden gleichermaßen reflektiert, indem ein langjährig erprobter Praxis- und Kooperationskontext vorgestellt wird.

Profit of Education

This important book translates evidence and examines policy, proposing a plan to save America's schools by rewarding teachers with professional-level salaries distributed wisely.Profit of Education makes it clear that rethinking the teaching profession is the key to repairing America's broken-down education system and securing our nation's future. Accomplishing that, author Dick Startz says, requires lifting teacher pay to professional levels and rewarding teachers for student success, with the goal of improving student learning by the equivalent of one extra year of schooling.Profit of Education takes the reader on a chapter-by-chapter walk through the evidence on pay-oriented, teacher-centric reform of the public school system, showing that such an approach can work. Startz translates the extensive scientific evidence on school reform into easily understood terms, demonstrating the enormous difference teachers make in student outcomes. Proposed levels of teacher salaries are established, and the difficult issue of differential pay is examined in depth, as are many of the practical and political issues involved in measuring teacher success. Last, but hardly least, Startz shows how teacher-centric school reform will pay off for the taxpayer and the economy.

Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (Special Educational Needs)

This invaluable guide provides teachers and trainees with practical tips for teaching children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Well-written and informative, the authors' specialist knowledge of working with those with PMLD and SLD is apparent on every page. Containing advice on diagnostic techniques, teaching strategies, social and emotional considerations and how parents can help, this book will prove essential reading for every teacher.

Profound Improvement: Building Capacity for a Learning Community (Contexts of Learning)

The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development. As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators deconstruct and reconstruct their professional narratives to enhance student learning and professional practice. In the interpersonal domain, educators generate norms and values that foster experimentation and critical analysis of educational practice and that promote collective and individual learning. In the organizational domain, visible and invisible structures are constructed that enable community members to enact educational practices in support of profound improvement in teaching and learning. This revised and updated edition of Profound Improvement not only brings this important work up-to-date but also shows how the authors thinking has changed and developed since the book was originally written. The book focuses on the life of educators as it relates to professional learning and growth. It is concerned with human growth and development, human cognition and affect and human interactions and actions in the context of a school community. For the new edition the authors also: elaborate more fully the notion of learning communities based on living systems and ecological perspectives develop their capacity building model They show that building a learning community is a dynamic process that engages the individual, the group and the organization in embedded interdependencies and mutual influences. As the authors clearly demonstrate: education is a living system as opposed to a managed system.

Profound Improvement: Building Capacity for a Learning Community (Contexts of Learning)

The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development. As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators deconstruct and reconstruct their professional narratives to enhance student learning and professional practice. In the interpersonal domain, educators generate norms and values that foster experimentation and critical analysis of educational practice and that promote collective and individual learning. In the organizational domain, visible and invisible structures are constructed that enable community members to enact educational practices in support of profound improvement in teaching and learning. This revised and updated edition of Profound Improvement not only brings this important work up-to-date but also shows how the authors thinking has changed and developed since the book was originally written. The book focuses on the life of educators as it relates to professional learning and growth. It is concerned with human growth and development, human cognition and affect and human interactions and actions in the context of a school community. For the new edition the authors also: elaborate more fully the notion of learning communities based on living systems and ecological perspectives develop their capacity building model They show that building a learning community is a dynamic process that engages the individual, the group and the organization in embedded interdependencies and mutual influences. As the authors clearly demonstrate: education is a living system as opposed to a managed system.

The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling can be brought to bear on a reading of this literature. McGurl argues that far from occasioning a decline in the quality or interest of American writing, the rise of the creative writing program has instead generated a complex and evolving constellation of aesthetic problems that have been explored with energy and at times brilliance by authors ranging from Flannery O’Connor to Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison. Through transformative readings of these and many other writers, The Program Era becomes a meditation on systematic creativity—an idea that until recently would have seemed a contradiction in terms, but which in our time has become central to cultural production both within and beyond the university. An engaging and stylishly written examination of an era we thought we knew, The Program Era will be at the center of debates about postwar literature and culture for years to come.

Program Evaluation: A Practitioner’s Guide for Trainers and Educators (Evaluation in Education and Human Services #4)

Program Evaluation: A Practitioner’s Guide for Trainers and Educators (Evaluation in Education and Human Services #3)

Please glance over the questions that follow and read the answers to those that are of interest. Q: What does this manual do? A: This manual guides the user through designing an evaluation. A: Who can use it? A: Anyone interested or involved in evaluating professional trammg or inservice education programs. The primary users will be staff members who are doing their own program evaluation-maybe for the first time. (Experienced evaluators or other professional educators can find useful guides and worksheets in it.) Q: If I work through this manual, what will I accomplish? A: You will develop one or more evaluation designs, and perhaps you'll also use the designs to evaluate something to make it better or to document its current value. Q: What is an evaluation design? A: An evaluation design is a conceptual and procedural map for getting important information about training efforts to people who can use it, as shown in the graphic below.

Program Evaluation: A Practitioner’s Guide for Trainers and Educators (Evaluation in Education and Human Services #2)

Program Evaluation in Language Education (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

The authors describe evaluation as a way of understanding and developing language programs: the thematic and background section sets out the decision-making, quality management, and learning functions of evaluation. Case studies illustrate the diversity of evaluation contexts, functions and approaches, documenting the ways in which evaluation processes and outcomes inform and facilitate program development, and contribute to explaining how language and teacher education programs constitute opportunities for learning. The ways in which evaluation practice can be researched and developed to maximize policy, institutional and program effectiveness is included, and a comprehensive set of resources for those commissioning, undertaking or researching language program evaluations concludes the text.

Program Evaluation in Practice: Core Concepts and Examples for Discussion and Analysis (Research Methods for the Social Sciences)

An updated guide to the core concepts of program evaluation This updated edition of Program Evaluation in Practice covers the core concepts of program evaluation and uses case studies to touch on real-world issues that arise when conducting an evaluation project. This important resource is filled with illustrative examples written in accessible terms and provides a wide variety of evaluation projects that can be used for discussion, analysis, and reflection. The book addresses foundations and theories of evaluation, tools and methods for collecting data, writing of reports, and the sharing of findings. The discussion questions and class activities at the end of each chapter are designed to help process the information in that chapter and to integrate the information from the other chapters, thus facilitating the learning process. As useful for students as it is for evaluators in training, Program Evaluation in Practice is a must-have text for those aspiring to be effective evaluators. Includes expanded discussion of basic theories and approaches to program evaluation Features a new chapter on objective-based evaluation and a new section on ethics in program evaluation Provides more detailed information and in-depth description for each case, including evaluation approaches, fresh references, new readings, and the new Joint Committee Standards for Evaluation

Program Evaluation in Practice: Core Concepts and Examples for Discussion and Analysis (Research Methods for the Social Sciences)

An updated guide to the core concepts of program evaluation This updated edition of Program Evaluation in Practice covers the core concepts of program evaluation and uses case studies to touch on real-world issues that arise when conducting an evaluation project. This important resource is filled with illustrative examples written in accessible terms and provides a wide variety of evaluation projects that can be used for discussion, analysis, and reflection. The book addresses foundations and theories of evaluation, tools and methods for collecting data, writing of reports, and the sharing of findings. The discussion questions and class activities at the end of each chapter are designed to help process the information in that chapter and to integrate the information from the other chapters, thus facilitating the learning process. As useful for students as it is for evaluators in training, Program Evaluation in Practice is a must-have text for those aspiring to be effective evaluators. Includes expanded discussion of basic theories and approaches to program evaluation Features a new chapter on objective-based evaluation and a new section on ethics in program evaluation Provides more detailed information and in-depth description for each case, including evaluation approaches, fresh references, new readings, and the new Joint Committee Standards for Evaluation

Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science: Strategies and Applications

Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science fills the gap between 21st century literature on evaluation and what is happening in practice. It features detailed examples of how evaluations actually unfold in practice to develop people, programs, and organizations. Commonly accepted strategies for practicing evaluation are outlined, followed by comprehe

Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science: Strategies and Applications

Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science fills the gap between 21st century literature on evaluation and what is happening in practice. It features detailed examples of how evaluations actually unfold in practice to develop people, programs, and organizations. Commonly accepted strategies for practicing evaluation are outlined, followed by comprehe

Programmatik und Praxis der Schulentwicklung: Rekonstruktionen zu einem konstitutiven Spannungsverhältnis (Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung #11)

Daniel Goldmann rekonstruiert als zentrales Phänomen schulischer Entwicklungspraxis eine hohe Differenz- und Konfliktvermeidung unter Lehrkräften, die die schulentwicklungsbezogenen Aushandlungen stark limitiert. Erklärt wird dieses Phänomen über die mangelnde formale Verfasstheit der Organisation Schule als ein zentrales Bezugsproblem von Schulentwicklung. Damit nimmt der Autor die wiederholt formulierte Differenz zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit von Schulentwicklung nicht zum Anlass von Kritik, sondern versteht die schulische Praxis in ihrer vermeintlich defizitären Abweichung von der Programmatik als gelingend und sinnhaft. Umgekehrt wird auch die Schulentwicklungsprogrammatik aufgrund der z.T. hohen Differenz zur Praxis nicht als überflüssig gesehen, sondern ebenso in ihrer Bedeutung für die Praxis in den Schulen untersucht.

Programme Evaluation and Quality: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up an Evaluation System (Open And Distance Learning Ser.)

Offers advice to those involved in the design of open and distance learning courses on creating an organized system of programme evaluation. The text addresses the need for such a programme, the organization of the evaluation, the determination of priorities and programme implementation.

Programme Evaluation and Quality: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up an Evaluation System

Offers advice to those involved in the design of open and distance learning courses on creating an organized system of programme evaluation. The text addresses the need for such a programme, the organization of the evaluation, the determination of priorities and programme implementation.

Programmed Learning in Perspective: A Guide to Program Writing

The method of programming outlined in this book represents a major contribution to the growing body of literature in programmed learning. It is the first book in the field to present a carefully designed, complete and integrated system for analyzing, organizing and structuring learning materials in programmed form.Application of the system is illustrated through the step-by-step construction of two short programs. Starting with the analysis of the syllabus and course content, the authors take the reader through each phase of the programming process gathering and organizing the content material, construction of the program matrix and flow diagram and finally, the writing of frames.Every teacher and trainer can benefit from the application of this method to lesson plan preparation and to classroom teaching techniques. Such a method is essential, for all those who are writing programmed materials. In a new computer age classroom environment, programmed learning can be especially beneficial.C. A. Thomas, I. K. Davies, D. Openshaw, and J. B. Bird are instructors or directors at the British Royal Air Force School of Education. They are pioneers in the application of programmed learning in Britain and are highly regarded as forward looking and creative educational research workers. Their accomplishments include, in addition to this ingenious book, the design and development of the Empirical Tutor, one of Britain's major teaching machines, and the publication of a number of technical papers in the field of programmed learning.Lawrence M. Stolurow is professor emeritus of psychological & quantitative foundations at the University of Iowa.

Programmed Learning in Perspective: A Guide to Program Writing

The method of programming outlined in this book represents a major contribution to the growing body of literature in programmed learning. It is the first book in the field to present a carefully designed, complete and integrated system for analyzing, organizing and structuring learning materials in programmed form.Application of the system is illustrated through the step-by-step construction of two short programs. Starting with the analysis of the syllabus and course content, the authors take the reader through each phase of the programming process gathering and organizing the content material, construction of the program matrix and flow diagram and finally, the writing of frames.Every teacher and trainer can benefit from the application of this method to lesson plan preparation and to classroom teaching techniques. Such a method is essential, for all those who are writing programmed materials. In a new computer age classroom environment, programmed learning can be especially beneficial.C. A. Thomas, I. K. Davies, D. Openshaw, and J. B. Bird are instructors or directors at the British Royal Air Force School of Education. They are pioneers in the application of programmed learning in Britain and are highly regarded as forward looking and creative educational research workers. Their accomplishments include, in addition to this ingenious book, the design and development of the Empirical Tutor, one of Britain's major teaching machines, and the publication of a number of technical papers in the field of programmed learning.Lawrence M. Stolurow is professor emeritus of psychological & quantitative foundations at the University of Iowa.

Programmieren mit Kara: Ein spielerischer Zugang zur Informatik (eXamen.press)

Grundkenntnisse algorithmischer Prozesse sind wesentlich zum Verständnis moderner Informations-Technologien. Hier setzen das Buch und die begleitende Lernsoftware an. Mit dem programmierbaren Marienkäfer Kara kann sich der Leser in spielerischer Weise grundlegende Algorithmen und komplexe Aufgaben der Informatik erarbeiten. Das breite Spektrum dieser Lernumgebung umfasst erste Schritte beim Programmieren, aber auch fortgeschrittene Themen wie die Koordination nebenläufiger Prozesse oder die Modellierung zweidimensionaler Turing-Maschinen. Ferner bietet die Erweiterung JavaKara einen intelligenten Übergang von endlichen Automaten zur Programmiersprache Java. Dieses Buch richtet sich in seiner spielerischen Vermittlung von Informatik-Grundlagen an alle, die ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Prinzipien moderner Informations-Technologien erwerben möchten. Die zweite Auflage ist um zwei neue Kapitel zur Booleschen Logik erweitert worden.

Programmieren mit Kara: Ein spielerischer Zugang zur Informatik (Springer-Lehrbuch)

Computer prägen heute unseren Alltag. Ein Grundverständnis algorithmischer Prozesse ist somit wesentlich zum Verständnis moderner Informations-Technologien. Hier setzen das Buch und die begleitende Lernsoftware an. Mit dem programmierbaren Marienkäfer Kara, einem als endlichen Automaten implementierten Roboter, können in spielerischer Weise grundlegende Algorithmen und komplexe Aufgaben der Informatik in einer didaktisch meisterhaft gestalteten Lernumgebung erarbeitet werden. Das breite Spektrum dieser Lernumgebung umfasst erste Schritte beim Programmieren, aber auch fortgeschrittene Themen wie die Koordination nebenläufiger Prozesse oder die Modellierung zweidimensionaler Turing-Maschinen. Ferner bietet die Erweiterung JavaKara einen intelligenten Übergang von endlichen Automaten zur Programmiersprache Java. Dieses Buch richtet sich in seiner spielerischen Vermittlung von Informatik-Grundlagen an alle, die ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Prinzipien moderner Informations-Technologien erwerben möchten.