Download or read book Effects of Integrating Writing Activities on Students Attitudes and Achievement in Problem Solving written by Kelly Culbert and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, students demonstrated overall increased mathematical knowledge, strategic knowledge, and abilities to explain their procedures. In addition, all three data-collection instruments demonstrated students' positive attitudes toward problem solving. Moreover, evaluation of the data sources illustrated a relationship between students' performance and attitudes. The study suggested that writing about mathematics is beneficial to students' achievement and attitudes toward problem solving.
Download or read book The Effects of Journal Writing on Student Attitudes and Performance in Problem Solving written by Christine K. Quinones and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study summarizes research conducted in a second grade classroom at a rural elementary school in the fall of 2004. This study investigated the practice of using writing activities in mathematics to improve student attitudes and performance in problem solving. The classroom teacher supplemented traditional mathematics instruction with daily problem solving activities and affective journal writing. Students were asked to complete daily problem solving prompts and write about their problem-solving solutions. Attitude data was collected using a pre and post attitude survey as well as affective journal writing assignments. Performance data was collected using a performance based problem-solving rubric. Results of this study showed change in students’ attitudes towards problem solving in the areas of willingness to participate and perseverance in completing problem solving tasks. Student performance gains were recorded and analyzed throughout the six-week study period. Thirteen out of the 17 students who participated in this study showed performance growth in problem solving.
Download or read book Effects of the Use of Journal Writing with Problem Solving on Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes of Elementary Students written by Dianne Raslavicz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Using Writing in the Math Classroom on Student Achievement in Math written by Dawn E. Digmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demands of local, state, and national mandates on the classroom teacher became overwhelming to me. I decided that it must be possible to work towards several goals without doing several tasks. As a result, I implemented writing would affect student achievement. The study was implemented with 22 pre-calculus students during the first nine-week term of 2007-2008 school year at Benton Community Schools. Existing student attitudes towards math were assessed with a survey at the beginning of the study and reassessed at the conclusion of the study. A pretest of pre-calculus concepts was given at the beginning and at the conclusion of the study. Questions were split between skill-based questions, which required a numeric response, and conceptual-based questions, which required a numeric response, and conceptual-based questions, which required a written explanation. Students also wrote in a journal an average of two times per week. Two formal writing assignments were also given throughout the nine-week study. Results showed an increase in the number of students showing a positive attitude towards math along with an increase in student achievement. These results may be due to the implementation of writing in the mathematic curriculum.
Download or read book The Effects of Using Writing to learn mathematics Strategies to Improve Student Achievement in Mathematics written by Rebecca Knudson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine if incorporating writing-to-learn strategies into the math curriculum would increase student achievement and motivation in math and decreases in students' math anxiety Students involved in this eight-week study came from student pre- and postsurveys, pre- and posttests over our first math unit, ans student journals. Writing-to-learn activities such as math autobiographies, quick-writes, problem solving and a variety of other writing prompts were assigned 2 times per week. All subjects showed a mean increase of 24 points out of the 41 points possible on the post test. The data collected demonstrated the benefit of using writing to learn strategies to give explanations and mathematical reasoning for answers.
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Download or read book 21st Century Skills written by Bernie Trilling and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) The book contains a video with clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com.
Download or read book The Effects of Different Types of Prompts on Achievement and Attitude in Mathematics written by Barbara R. Greer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the effects of three different types of writing prompts, procedural, summary, and self-monitoring, on achievement and self-concept of ability in mathematics. Participants included 81 eighth grade students taking a course designed to prepare students for algebra in the ninth grade in a large urban school district in Southern California. Data were gathered using a quasi-experimental design, teacher-researcher created pre-and post-tests, the Minnesota Mathematics Attitude Inventory, teacher field notes, student responses to prompts, and individual and group interviews. Controlling for demographic and other variables identified in the study, simultaneous regression analysis revealed that only summary writing had a significant positive association at the .05 significance level on achievement and no type of prompt was associated with changes in self-concept of ability. Self-concept of ability, however, was found to have a small, positive association with achievement gain. Qualitative analysis revealed several themes, including resistance to writing, elaboration, writing as a reference, grading student writing, the inability to express thoughts when understanding is limited, and writing and remembering. Student self-reports revealed complex relationships between content, instruction, achievement, attitude, and writing. While procedural prompts were preferred by most students, all three types of prompts were found useful by students at different times during the study. The teacher-researcher concluded that the nature of the content and the level of students' understanding should be considered when selecting the type of writing prompt to complement instruction in mathematics at any given time. Different types of prompts "fit" the content and level of students' understanding better than others. Prompts must be purposefully selected to focus students' attention on the type(s) and level of knowledge required by the curriculum. In addition, students who are struggling with understanding a concept or mastering a skill may benefit more from being able to identify and express their understanding and confusions through self-monitoring than through more informational types of writing. Instruction in and use of a variety of carefully selected prompts in mathematics may give students and teachers an effective alternative to assigning more problems without increasing teacher workload and increasing opportunities for students to gain access to the content.
Download or read book The Effect of Using Journal Writing on Achievement in Attitude Towards Mathematics at the First Intermediate Level written by Rihab Izzat Abu Zein and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated the effect of journal writing in mathematics classes on achievement in and attitude towards mathematics. Achievement included school mathematics achievement, conceptual understanding, procedural knowledge, problem-solving, and mathematical communication. The differential effect of gender, program, level of writing achievement, and level of mathematics achievement were also investigated. The study was conducted on students in four sections in the first intermediate classes at the International College in Beirut, two of these sections are in the French program and the other two in the English program. The subjects were 104 students (59.6% boys) equally distributed to the four classes. At the beginning of the year, the school randomly assigned the subjects to four classes in the English program, and three classes in the French program. For the purpose of this study, two sections from each of the programs, were randomly assigned to be the treatment and control groups respectively. The subjects in the journal writing group (treatment group) wrote in their journals three times a week for a twelve-week period, while the students in the non-journal writing group (control group) were given drill exercises. Conceptual understanding, procedural knowledge, problem-solving, mathematical communication, school mathematics achievement, and attitude towards mathematics were measured by pre- and posttests. Two-way multivariate analysis of covariance was used to test the hypotheses with pretests scores as covariates. These analyses were repeated for gender, program, level of writing achievement, and level of mathematics achievement. The students' evaluation of the journal writing experience was qualitatively studied. Results showed that journal writing had a significant effect on conceptual understanding, procedural knowledge, and mathematical communication, and no significant effect on problem-solving, school mathematics achievement, and attitude towards mathematics. No significant results were found for the interaction between journal writing and gender, program, level of writing achievement, and level of mathematics achievement. Students perceived the benefits of journal writing as a learning tool that enhances understanding and reflection on one's learning. It also provides the students the opportunity to give opinions and release frustration.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on the Heart written by Susan H. McLeod and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognized that affect (that is, the noncognitive aspect of mental activity) plays a large role in writing and in learning to write. According to Susan H. McLeod, however, the model that has been most used for empirical research on the writing process is based on cognitive psychology and does not take into account affective phenomena. Nor does the social constructionist view of the writing process acknowledge the affective realm except in a very general way. To understand the complete picture, McLeod insists, we need to explore how cognitive, affective, and social elements interact as people write. In this book, McLeod follows a group of students through a semester of writing assignments, tracking the students' progress and examining the affective elements relevant to their writing. To facilitate future discussion of these phenomena, McLeod also provides suggested definitions for terms in the affective domain. In a very real sense, this book is the result of a collaboration of three Susans: Susan McLeod, who researched and wrote the book; Sue Hallett, an instructor in Washington State University's composition program whose classes McLeod observed and who helped provide much of the data; and Susan Parker, a graduate student who observed Hallett's class and who ran a tutorial connected to that class. To provide a narrative structure, McLeod and her two collaborators have constructed a simulated semester, conflating the year and a half of the study into one semester and creating a class that is a composite drawn from seven classrooms over three semesters. Although philosophers have had much to say about the affective domain, Notes on the Heart is based for the most part on research from the social sciences. Discussions of pedagogy, while meant to have practical value, are suggestive rather than prescriptive. The goal is to help teachers see their practice in new way. Teachers will be particularly interested in McLeod's discussion of teacher affect/effect. This section examines both the issue of the "Pygmalion effect" (students becoming better because the teacher believes they are) and perhaps the more common opposite, the "golem effect" (students becoming less capable because their teachers view them that way).
Download or read book Evaluating the Effects of a Planned Program of Writing Activities and Reinforcement Techniques on Student Attitudes and Achievement written by Elizabeth Thurston Royer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evidence based Minilessons and Effect on Student Attitudes and Achievement in Writing written by Lynette Piontek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mixed methods study examined effects of evidence-based minilessons on student attitudes and achievement in writing. Researched literature concluded there is a decline of writing in the United States that mostly begins near fourth grade and continues through high school and college. Factors contributing to this gap included: lack of teacher accountabilitiy; lack of writing instruction time; poor teacher and student attitudes about writing; lack of evidence-based practices; and lack of professional development both pre-service and in-service. The focus of this study was on evidence-based minilessons and their effects on student attitudes and achievement in writing. A nationally normed survey among 1,500 students was given to fifteen third grade students to establish a baseline of their attitudes about writing and an assessment was given to set a baseline of their knowledge on the writing process. Students were then taught six weeks of minilesson instruction with the evidence-based Pathways to Writing Program. The same students were given a post-survey identical to the baseline survey along with a post-unit assessment to determine growth on the writing process. Qualitative data were also collected from student comments collected during thei minilessons. An analysis of the pre- and post-data determined there was significant improvement in both attitude scores and achievement scores after evidence-based minilessons in writing were taught. Further research is suggested on other factors discovered in this study that could contribute to a decline in writing attitudes or writing achievement.
Download or read book The Effects of Different Types of Prompts on Achievement and Attitude in Mathematics written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the effects of three different types of writing prompts, procedural, summary, and self-monitoring, on achievement and self-concept of ability in mathematics. Participants included 81 eighth grade students taking a course designed to prepare students for algebra in the ninth grade in a large urban school district in Southern California. Data were gathered using a quasi-experimental design, teacher-researcher created pre-and post-tests, the Minnesota Mathematics Attitude Inventory, teacher field notes, student responses to prompts, and individual and group interviews. Controlling for demographic and other variables identified in the study, simultaneous regression analysis revealed that only summary writing had a significant positive association at the .05 significance level on achievement and no type of prompt was associated with changes in self-concept of ability. Self-concept of ability, however, was found to have a small, positive association with achievement gain. Qualitative analysis revealed several themes, including resistance to writing, elaboration, writing as a reference, grading student writing, the inability to express thoughts when understanding is limited, and writing and remembering. Student self-reports revealed complex relationships between content, instruction, achievement, attitude, and writing. While procedural prompts were preferred by most students, all three types of prompts were found useful by students at different times during the study. The teacher-researcher concluded that the nature of the content and the level of students' understanding should be considered when selecting the type of writing prompt to complement instruction in mathematics at any given time. Different types of prompts "fit" the content and level of students' understanding better than others. Prompts must be purposefully selected to focus students' attention on the type(s) and level of knowledge required by the curriculum. In addition, students who are struggling with understanding a concept or mastering a skill may benefit more from being able to identify and express their understanding and confusions through self-monitoring than through more informational types of writing. Instruction in and use of a variety of carefully selected prompts in mathematics may give students and teachers an effective alternative to assigning more problems without increasing teacher workload and increasing opportunities for students to gain access to the content.
Download or read book Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion in Europe written by Ramon Flecha (Ed.) and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulnerable groups (i.e. youth, migrants, cultural groups e.g. Roma, women, and people with disabilities). Concrete data that shows success in school performance in subject matters such as math or language will be provided, as well as children, teachers and families accounts of the impact of this success. Alongside, there is an analysis of the relationship between these children’s educational performance with their inclusion or exclusion from different areas of society (i.e. housing, health, employment, and social and political participation). Many studies have already diagnosed and described the causes of educational and social exclusion of these vulnerable groups. This monograph, however, provides solutions, that is, actions for success identified through the INCLUD-ED project, thus providing both, contrasted data and solid theoretical background and development. Some examples of these actions are interactive groups (or heterogeneous grouping in the classroom with reorganisation of human resources), extension of the learning time, homework clubs, tutored libraries, family and community educative participation, family education, or dialogic literary gatherings. All these actions have been defined as successful educational actions, which mean that they lead to both efficiency and equity. Finally, recommendations for policy and practice are included and discussed.
Download or read book The Influence of Journal Writing on Achievement and Attitudes in the Social Studies Classroom written by April Burke and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of journal writing on achievement and attitudes of fourth graders in the social studies classroom. A pretest and posttest were administered to measure social studies achievement. The researcher used a one-tailed, two-sample t test to determine statistical significance in achievement. There was no significant increase in social studies achievement found; therefore, the researcher failed to reject the null hypothesis. An attitude survey was administered prior to and following the treatment. A one-tailed, one-sample t test was used to determine significance in the effects of the treatment on students’ attitudes. There was no significant change in attitudes; therefore, the researcher failed to reject the null hypothesis. While a positive trend in attitude was noted when implementing the use of journal writing in this study, the researcher concluded that there was not a significant effect on achievement and students’ attitudes in the social studies classroom.
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
