In an attempt to understand the processes that allow all students to successfully learn mathematics this paper conceptualizes a successful mathematics classroom in terms of excellence in mathematics and how equitably achievement is distributed. The study employs multilevel models and the Canadian data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study to identify the characteristics of ...

An increasing number of developers of virtual classrooms offer keyboard support and additional features for improving accessibility. Especially blind users encounter barriers when participating in visually dominated synchronous learning sessions. The existent accessibility features facilitate their participation, but cannot guarantee an equal use in comparison to non-disabled users. This paper ...

In this study we examined the responses of low-achieving students to reform-based mathematics instruction in five elementary classrooms. We used qualitative methods at two schools to identify the needs of low achievers in these classrooms. Through classroom observations and interviews with teachers, we studied the involvement of low achievers in whole-class discussions and pair work. Results su...

Multilingualism, superdiversity, and the abundance of language contacts place new demands on teachers, who must consider each student’s linguistic biography, family policies, cultural practices in order to keep up with their growth a specific school vs. university subject. Many more languages are becoming pluricentric as they continue be used migrating populations. So, decline or flourish diasp...

The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs Field experiments that involve nested structures may assign treatment conditions either to entire groups (such as classrooms or schools), or individuals within groups (such as students). Since field experiments involve clustering, key aspects of their design include knowledge of the intraclass correlation structure and the sample sizes necessary to a...

The outbreak of epidemics, the rise of religious radicalization or the motivational influence of fellow students in classrooms are some of the issues that can be described as diffusion processes in heterogeneous groups. Understanding the role that interaction patterns between groups (e.g. homophily or segregation) play in the diffusion of certain traits or behaviours is a major challenge for co...

Interactive distance learning (IDL) is an evolving paradigm of instruction and learning that attempts to overcome both distance and time constraints found in traditional classroom learning. The electronic classrooms at two sites of the University of Oslo and two further sites in Norway overcome separations in space by exchanging digital audio, video, and whiteboard information via the Norwegian...

This study presents an empirically-based statewide system that links information about pre-kindergarten programs with children’s school readiness scores to certify pre-kindergarten classrooms as promoting school readiness. Over 8,000 children from 1,255 pre-kindergarten classrooms were followed longitudinally for one year. Pre-kindergarten quality indicators of intentional instruction, an early...

Open plan classrooms, where several class bases share the same space, have recently re-emerged in Australian primary schools. This paper compiled the results of three recent studies to compare both the acoustic parameters and speech perception test results in four different Kindergarten classrooms (an enclosed classroom with 25 students, a double classroom with 44 students, an untreated linear ...

By the integration of high speed computer networks and interactive multi-media workstations, the IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction) System creates a geographically dispersed virtual classroom. Each student participates using a personal workstation which can be used to view multi-media class presentations, to make presentations, to take notes in a multi-media notebook, and to interact via audi...