Search results for "teaching and learning"

Representational consistency and the learning of forces in upper secondary school physics

2013

MINE - Mobile Learning in Higher Education

2018

Mobile technologies are an important part of our daily life and we carry them with us all the time. Mobile learning is already used a lot in informal and non-formal learning, but in the context of formal learning it is not much used, yet. In the area of formal learning at universities, there is a great need for pedagogic scenarios to encourage educatorsto use these new technologies. It is suggested that educators will need to move beyond the didactic approaches still frequently found in higher education. Social constructivist approaches have been advocated, along with the development of communities of practice to support educators. In addition, more emphasis on learners is required, to unde…

Training Secondary Education Teachers through the Prism of Sustainability: The Case of the Universitat de València

2018

Designing the training of future teachers through holistic and interdisciplinary visions is vital to developing coherent contents, epistemologies, and methodologies that put Education for Sustainability into action. The research presented here analyzes the teaching guides from the curriculum for the Master&rsquo

Análisis de las experiencias de aprendizaje de las ciencias de los/as maestros/as de Educación Infantil y Primaria en formación inicial a través de s…

2019

Se presenta una investigación sobre las experiencias de aprendizaje de las ciencias de los maestros/as en formación inicial de dos universidades españolas. Se recogieron 263 relatos de vida entre estudiantes de Grado en Educación Infantil y Primaria -a partes iguales en que narraban sus vivencias en las etapas de Infantil, Primaria y Secundaria, y también en entornos no académicos. Estos relatos se analizaron cualitativamente, mediante la definición de categorías y subcategorías de contenido, y cuantitativamente, mediante el recuento de la frecuencia de aparición de fragmentos clasificados en ellas. Se presentan resultados respecto a contenidos, recursos, aproximaciones metodológicas, aspec…

Delineating Aspects of Understanding Eigentheory through Assessment Development

2018

International audience; In this report, we share insights we have gained from developing an assessment for documenting students' understanding of eigentheory. We explain the literature and theory that influenced the assessment's development and share question examples. We frame our results in terms of three eigentheory settings (Ax = λx, (A - λI)x = 0, and eigenspaces) and four interpretations (numeric, algebraic, geometric, and verbal). Results from our analysis include students' reasoning being influenced by setting, insights into students' struggle with understanding eigenspaces, and the importance of making connections between and across various interpretations.

Characteristics of participation - A mathematician and a mathematics educator collaborating on a developmental research project

2018

International audience; In this paper, a developmental research project involving offering mathematical modelling (MM) activities to university biology students is presented, and a particular aspect is studied, namely the project as a collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics educators. The aim of the paper is to investigate what characterizes their participation in the project, and how the characteristics of the project and its development might influence this participation. Interview data as well as observation data from the MM sessions are analysed, and findings show that the mathematics educator served as a broker influencing the practice of the mathematician. It is hoped tha…

Predictors of performance in engineering mathematics

2018

International audience; Mathematics in university courses was identified as a main obstacle for engineering students in the beginning of their study. Since difficulties with mathematics could lead to a dropout, our research aims to analyse students' profiles referring to individual characteristics that allow identifying possible risks for students' achievement or success in the first year of study. As a first step to identify possibly risky profiles, we started to find possible predictors of students' performance. For this, we give a short overview of the research state and our derived research interest. We discuss theoretical constructs that are possibly crucial characteristics of students…

Esperienze di Debate all’Università di Palermo

2023

Introduzione Il Progetto Mentore per la didattica dell'Università di Palermo è un’esperienza di formazione e miglioramento della didattica universitaria a cui partecipiamo su base volontaria da alcuni anni. Le attività del Progetto includono anche la formazione su alcune specifiche metodologie didattiche, ma contemporaneamente, attraverso il confronto e il dialogo tra pari, incentivano la ricerca e l’elaborazione di nuovi percorsi didattici all’interno dei rispettivi insegnamenti. In questo contesto, su iniziativa autonoma e attraverso una formazione da autodidatti, abbiamo sperimentato in due insegnamenti di Corsi di Laurea di ambito disciplinare diverso (Giurisprudenza e Chimica) la metod…

“Making connections” in the mathematics courses for engineers: the example of online resources for trigonometry

2018

International audience; This paper concerns the teaching of mathematics for future engineers, focusing on the theme of trigonometry. We claim that the use of trigonometry in engineering courses requires different kinds of connections: connecting different domains, different concepts, frames and registers. We use here the concept of connectivity, developed in the frame of e-textbooks analysis, to analyse online courses for future engineers in France. We evidence that these courses propose some connections; but their connectivity is not developed enough to meet the requirements of engineering courses.

Mathematics teaching development: Learning from developmental research in Norway

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11858-013-0567-6 This paper is a product of mathematics teaching developmental research projects based on establishing communities of inquiry comprising schoolteachers working at all grades and university-based teacher educator/researchers (didacticians). The projects are established on the principle that teachers taking an inquiry stance in their practice can assert their agency to develop their teaching to enable improved learning experiences for their students. The educational context and the societal pressure to develop ma…