Comparing Communication Patterns within a Hybrid Professional Development Mathematics Course for Elementary Teachers

Janet Bowers Bowers; David Yang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4407–4412

Although online and hybrid models for instruction are gaining popularity in college courses, they are still very rarely seen in professional development programs for practicing teachers. The aim of this research is to evaluate the degree to which...

Comparing Individual and Collective Mathematical Activity across Two Teaching Experiments. Draft

Erna Yackel; Janet Bowers

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1997 (March 1997)

This paper examines students' mathematics learning in a social context as two versions of an instructional sequence designed to facilitate students' development of a conceptual foundation for place-value numeration are enacted in two third grade...

Three Perspectives in Research on Functions: Multi-Representational, Quantitative, and Phenomenological

Joanne Lobato; Janet Bowers

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)

Much research on student understanding of functions has been characterized by a "multi-representational" perspective that investigates students' efforts to make connections among conventionally accepted mathematical representations such as graphs,...

How Can Digital Didactic Objects Be Designed to Support the Learning of Mathematics?

Janet Bowers; Nadine Bezuk; Karen Aguilar; Steve Klass

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 345–352

Designing didactic objects involves imagining how students can conceive of specific mathematical topics and then imagining what types of classroom discussions could support these mental constructions. This study investigated whether it was possible ...

DESIGNING MULTIMEDIA CASE STUDIES FOR PRESERVICE TEACHERS: PEDAGOGICAL QUESTIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN SOLUTIONS

Janet Bowers; Jeffrey Sale; Garrett Kenehan; Helen M. Doerr

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1889–1893

This paper discusses some of the pedagogical questions and technological solutions that evolved as we developed three multimedia case studies for preservice teachers. The design goal of this project was to create a means for helping preservice...

Topics: Teachers, Multimedia

Using Technology to Gauge Prospective Teachers’ Interpretations of the Common Core Standards

Janet Bowers; Michael Fredenberg; John Gruver; Jeremy Roschelle

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1317–1325

This report describes prospective teachers’ interpretations of the mathematical practices described in the Common Core State Standards. Thirty-five prospective middle school teachers used Xtranormal, an online video scripting program, to create and ...