For the last decade research on teachers’ beliefs has made a distinction between mathematics teachers’ professed and attributed beliefs (practice) and studies have either found some or no correlation between the two. In this paper we investigate the beliefs and practices of a novice teacher and conclude that inconsistency between beliefs and practices may be an observer’s perspective that is no...

Every day, clinician teachers witness the shock experienced by new residents when they realize that a clinic is in a constant state of uncertainty. Undifferentiated complaints, diagnostic doubts, the familial, social, and cultural characteristics of the patient and his or her perspective, and the working environment and its imponderables are among the factors that cause residents to “lose their...

In this paper we consider the formulation of theory to fit a specific teaching problem. We advocate that a good theory should be practical in the sense that it has application in the classroom to produce long-lasting improvements in ways that make sense to teachers and students. It would also help to simplify the situation by bringing together with essential common elements from other theories ...

Before embarking on a full-scale study, it was important to gain some understanding of the user’s perspective. In a preliminary study conducted in 1999 teachers used commercially available speech technology in a singing lesson, incorporating the computer-assisted visual feedback in whatever way they found useful. Interview data from teachers and students indicated that it is certainly both feas...

a comparison of teachers and students opinions toward effective teaching standards in urmia university of medical sciences     mohaddesi h [1] , feizi a [2] *, r salem safy [3]     received: 2august, 2011 accepted: 6 september, 2011     abstract   background & aims : undoubtedly, taking the influential factors in effective teaching and learning into consideration improves the quality of educati...

The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project is attempting to establish open-inquiry collaborative science projects as a classroom activity structure. This efforts are described from a design experiment perspective where social and material supports are strategically arranged to encourage this classroom evolution. Supports are provided to help teachers form community, teachers manag...

This paper discusses literature on the factors that contribute to and detract from reforms being implemented in schools from the perspective of a former teacher. The effects of school culture, the emotional and relational aspects of teaching and the change process, the importance of professional development, the need for time in teachers’ professional lives, and school leadership are analyzed. ...

This Study Guide is intended as an orientation to the four parts of the film WATER AND THE DREAM OF THE ENGINEERS. It presents the perspective of the film and offers general background material for teachers unfamiliar with .the subject. For further reading, a brief bibliography is provzded. At the end of the notes for each section is a set of study questions teachers might use with their studen...

A large-scale online teacher resource exchange is studied to examine the ways in which metadata influence teachers’ selection of resources. A hierarchical linear modeling approach was used to tease apart the simultaneous effects of resource features and author features. From a decision heuristics theoretical perspective, teachers appear to rely on complex heuristics that integrate many dimensio...

In this paper, a statistically optimal solution to the Perspective-n-Point (PnP) problem is presented. Many solutions to the PnP problem are geometrically optimal, but do not consider the uncertainties of the observations. In addition, it would be desirable to have an internal estimation of the accuracy of the estimated rotation and translation parameters of the camera pose. Thus, we propose a ...