Using K–8 national longitudinal data, the authors investigate males’ and females’ achievement in math and reading, including when gender gaps first appear, whether the appearance of gaps depends on the metric used, and where on the achievement distribution gaps are most prevalent. Additionally, teachers’ assessments of males and females are compared. The authors find no math gender gap in kinde...

The United States is currently not producing enough graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields to meet the demands of a technology-dependent society. Although there are many efforts in place to improve STEM education in the United States, most notably, President Obama’s Educate to Innovate campaign, these efforts focus mostly on innovating the teaching of math content...

The present study investigated 90 elementary teachers’ ability to identify two systematic error patterns in subtraction and then prescribe an instructional focus. Presented with two sets of 20 completed subtraction problems comprised of basic facts, computation, and word problems representative of two students’ math performance, participants were asked to examine each incorrect subtraction prob...

conclusions the results may help clinicians for early intervention and focus on related components of executive function to improve the educational performance of dcd children. knowing that executive function skills are associated with these two achievement domains suggests potentiality of targeted math and spelling interventions for dcd children. results the findings showed that components of ...

We study the effectiveness of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in Washington State, which has one of the largest populations of National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) in the nation. Based on value-added models in math and reading, we find that NBPTS certified teachers are about 0.01-0.05 student standard deviations more effective than non-N...

TEX is a good tool for creating beautiful books, especially when the book contains a lot of math formulas. It is not rare that TEX is used to typeset a view of a database, by generating TEX source from the database text, possibly using XML as an intermediate format. Some TEX packages and formats support reading XML data directly. In the matbook project we have created a database of math exercis...

This study aims at investigating which cues teachers detect and process from their students during instruction. This information capturing process depends on teachers’ sensitivity, or awareness, to students’ needs, which has been recognized as crucial for classroom management. We recorded the gaze behaviors of two pre-service teachers and two experienced teachers during a whole math lesson in p...

The National Academies report “Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects” gives recommendations describing the importance of a necessary, systematic change in the incorporation of engineering within the K12 education system. Existing efforts to introduce engineering into K-12 typically consist of in-service activities for teachers and summer camp experi...

Research has focused predominantly on how teachers affect students' achievement on tests despite evidence that a broad range of attitudes and behaviors are equally important to their long-term success. We find that upper-elementary teachers have large effects on self-reported measures of students' self-efficacy in math, and happiness and behavior in class. Students' attitudes and behaviors are ...

While the conditions for successful technology integration finally appear to be in place including ready access to technology, moderately trained teachers, and a favorable policy environment, high-level technology use is still surprisingly low. This suggests that additional barriers, specifically related to teachers’ pedagogical beliefs, may be at work. Previous researchers have noted the influ...