This article reviews the literature concerning the introduction of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in educational settings. It identifies common themes to emerge from a burgeoning and diverse literature, which includes reports and summaries available on the Internet. Although the literature reviewed is overwhelmingly positive about the impact and the potential of IWBs, it is primarily based on t...

This report focuses on a research project concerning individual curricula regarding the instruction of statistics and of probability theory. Individual curricula will be described as belief systems which contain teachers’ subjective knowledge and conceptions about mathematics, about learning and teaching mathematics, and particularly about statistics and probability. This report stresses two as...

Objectives Traditionally, teaching is part of a clinician's job. Some practitioners recognize the teaching activity as rewarding. This study explored the ways clinical practitioners experience their journey from clinicians to medical teachers, analyzing their prior experiences of teaching and learning, conceptions of good teaching and learning, perceptions of learning environments, and finally,...

With the introduction of any new initiative into the mathematics classroom, there is often an assumption that it will produce visible and measurable effects in teaching approaches and pupil progress. Yet, there is a body of research that tempers such optimism, drawing attention to a series of mitigating factors, for example, the deep-seated nature of teachers’ practices, their implicit or state...

The purpose of this study was to describe how four teachers in four different cities in Missouri implemented a constructivist-based learning environment (CBLE) that included an innovation cluster that paired an emerging online technology with a unit design framework. The motivating question for the study originated from prior research on teacher reform efforts including the adoption of technolo...

How can creating videos contribute to expanding health literacy? This article describes a participatory action research project with a group of Canadian Indigenous youth and their teachers. As the youth explored their interests about health and wellness through the artistic creation of videos, they developed a critical consciousness about community, culture, confidence, and control. They became...

We discuss the results of a qualitative research with science teachers that serve students from traditional communities. The aim is to analyze their conceptions on importance teaching and how teach Western these Data collection carried out through semi-structured interviews four who work in public school state Bahia, Brazil. analysis starts construction narratives, generating thematic categorie...

Subjective perception of randomness has been researched by psychologists and mathematics educators, using a variety of tasks, resulting in a number of different descriptions for the biases that characterize people's performances. Analyzing prospective teachers’ possible biases concerning randomness is highly relevant as new mathematics curricula for compulsory teaching levels are being proposed...

The two separate projects described have examined how teachers exploit computer-based technologies in supporting learning of science at secondary level. This paper examines how pedagogical approaches associated with these technological tools are adapted to both the cognitive and structuring resources available in the classroom setting. Four teachers participated in the first study, undertaken a...