Not exact matches
Thinking Maths draws on a New Zealand
research synthesis by Helen Timperly and colleagues highlighting features of professional learning in mathematics that are effective in improving student outcomes.
(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «
Synthesis of
Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive
Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and
Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).
The
synthesis of
research resulted in an integrated approach to preparing mathematics teachers using four technology - based resources housed at the Center for Algebraic
Thinking website (Resources are freely accessible at http://www.algebraicthinking.org):
These include problem solving, critical
thinking, and
research and
synthesis skills (Alliance for Excellence in Education, 2007; Wiley, Wyatt, & Camara, 2010).
In the context of this current debate, I
think it is reasonable to predict that comment or not, Klotzbach et al 2009 will have little influence on future
research directions and
synthesis reports.
I
think it was John Ziman who first wrote that the major form of
research synthesis now was the grant proposal.
The authors would like to acknowledge the following grants and institutions: SM, KF, and KH: National Socio - Environmental
Synthesis Center (SESYNC)-- US National Science Foundation (NSF) award DBI - 1052875; JR: The Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES); GRA: Laboratory Directed
Research and Development award by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is managed by the Battelle Memorial Institute for the US Department of Energy; MAC: Office of Naval Research, research grant MURI N00014 -12-1-0911; FMW: NSF award CBET - 1541642; VMY: The Institute for New Economic Thinking
Research and Development award by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is managed by the Battelle Memorial Institute for the US Department of Energy; MAC: Office of Naval
Research, research grant MURI N00014 -12-1-0911; FMW: NSF award CBET - 1541642; VMY: The Institute for New Economic Thinking
Research,
research grant MURI N00014 -12-1-0911; FMW: NSF award CBET - 1541642; VMY: The Institute for New Economic Thinking
research grant MURI N00014 -12-1-0911; FMW: NSF award CBET - 1541642; VMY: The Institute for New Economic
Thinking (INET).
These five
research syntheses include information about
research and innovative
thinking related to family and community connections with schools.