Drs Singh, Graeb, Fung, and Teal (1) have published a case report in this edition of the American Journal of Neuroradiology. Read it. It is a gripping story. In brief, a woman suffered a myocardial infarction. One week later she had a stroke. The middle cerebral artery embolus was successfully lysed with intraarterial urokinase. Then her heart ruptured and she died. Why publish such a case repo...

This investigation set out to look into the issue of teachers’ exercise of agency in the Iranian EFL context. More specifically, as part of a larger study, it reports on the ways two Iranian Ministry of Education teachers make sense of and operate in the country’s educational setting under the demands of a centralist system of education. Priestley, Biesta, & Robinson’s (2013) framework of teach...

It is not uncommon for classroom teacher researchers to face multiple obstacles, but for the fifth grade teacher in this study, Donna, her administrators did not support her research efforts because they thought it would take away from preparing students for end of grade tests. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways conducting teacher research shaped Donna’s teacher identities and to...

This study traces the lesson design process for a professional development initiative on nanoeducation. In particular, a lesson on quantum dots is traced throughout the iterative design process based on a learning performances framework combined with design-based research. Teacher feedback, preand post-tests covering conceptual information, and researcher field notes were used as the primary so...

In this text, associated with my opening lecture at the first INDRUM Conference, I will reflect on the achievements and challenges of mathematics education research at university level, in the light of my experience both as a researcher and a university teacher. First, I will come back to the historical evolution of this field of research through the retrospective analysis of some selected epis...

Students’ actions within a CSCL-environment can be recorded and stored as interaction data. This data can be accessed and analyzed automatically. Teachers, students and researchers may benefit from these analyses. It gives teachers and students immediate feedback about performance indicators and it can help researchers to identify meaningful patterns in the interaction data. In the symposium we...

introduction: over the past 30 years, recognizing the need and importance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted in several resident-as-teacher programs. the purpose of this study was to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigate the improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluating their satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessing...

There is little research on the task-based teaching approach in senior secondary L2 English writing classrooms. This study carried out an exploratory sequential mixed methods study to explore the suitability and adaptations of task-based language teaching in the domain of secondary schools in small cities. First, the researcher surveyed six EFL senior secondary teachers of different teaching ex...