Prospective secondary school teachers’ knowledge of sampling distribution properties

A Geometry Course for Prospective Secondary School Teachers

Prospective Primary School Teachers’ Perception of Randomness

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...

Physiology course for secondary school biology teachers.

The Department of Physiology at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University offered a human physiology course to middle school and high school science teachers in the Richmond, VA, area. It was a three-credit course, team taught, and given at a location convenient to many area teachers. This course served the community by contributing to the continuing education efforts of ...

Bahraini School Teachers' Knowledge of Asthma

Background and Objectives: Bronchial asthma is a common and life-threatening problem affecting school children and adolescents. School teachers must be aware of this condition to educate their students, and to provide assistance to manage such attacks. This study is designed to assess the asthma knowledge of school teachers, and to determine if such knowledge is influenced by other variables. M...

Prospective teachers’ knowledge: Concept of division

The purpose of this study was to determine prospective teachers’ knowledge about the concept of division. One focus of interest was whether the prospective teachers were able to represent division of fractions. The participants were introduced to an alternative model for representation of fractions based on a rate or ratio model of division involving whole numbers. A second focus of interest wa...