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Different Types of Algebraic Thinking: an Empirical Study Focusing on Middle School Students
(2020)
Central in the frameworks that describe algebra from K-12 is the idea that algebraic thinking is not a single construct, but consists of several algebraic thinking strands. Validation studies exploring this idea are ...
Inquiry-based learning and retrospective action: Problematizing student work in a computer-supported learning environment
(2020)
We examined student performance in a computer-supported learning environment after students undertook, among others, a graphing task within an inquiry context. Students were assigned in two conditions: (a) Students were ...
Short- and long-term effects of the home learning environment and teachers on student achievement in mathematics: a longitudinal study
(2020)
This paper investigates the short- and long-term effects of both the home learning environment (HLE) and the teacher factors of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness upon student mathematics achievement. Written ...
framework describing students' mathematics learning experience with a tablet-based pedagogical mediumA : the case of a geometry exploration
(2020)
In this study, we presented a theoretical framework that describes factors of student’s learning experience in a tablet-based learning environment with math apps. The theoretical framework is based on a synthesis of the ...
Developing young children's computational thinking with educational robotics: An interaction effect between gender and scaffolding strategy
(2020)
The study examined the effects of learning with the Bee-Bot on young boys' and girls' computational thinking within the context of two scaffolding techniques. The study reports statistically significant learning gains ...
Computational thinking education: Issues and challenges
(2020)
Computational Thinking is a term applied to describe the increasing attention on students' knowledge development about designing computational solutions to problems, algorithmic thinking, and coding. It focuses on skills ...
Classroom communities, language choices and accessibility to discourse: the case of a multi-ethnic/multilingual class of a private school in Cyprus
(2020)
The paper reports on the results of a case study of a Year 9 class in a multilingual urban school. The study investigates issues of negotiation, accessibility and (legitimacy of) rights in the classroom’s dominant discourse ...
Problematising disabling discourses on the assessment and placement of learners with disabilities: can interdependence inform an alternative narrative for inclusion?
(2020)
In this paper, we seek to explore how the concepts of dependence, independence and interdependence are reflected in discourses on documents prepared by two Commissioners in Cyprus (the Commissioner for the Rights of the ...
An early childhood education curriculum that responds to children's voices on transition to first grade
(2020)
The purpose of this study was to examine how an early childhood education (ECE) curriculum responds to children’s voices in reference to transition from kindergarten to first grade. Drawing from the findings of a previous ...
Epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge as predictors of the construction of different types of arguments on socioscientific issues
(2020)
This study investigates whether university students’ epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge about controversial socioscientific issues (SSIs) can predict the different types of arguments that students construct. Two hundred ...