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FRAMING THE DIALOGUE: A NEW, COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO THE HAZING DILEMMA
(2008-08)
The University of Michigan’s disciplinary process requires bringing charges
against individual students. An unexpected situation of nine simultaneous hazing
cases during the 2004 fall term magnified the challenge of ...
Expanding students' involvement in proof problems: Are geometry teachers willing to depart from the norm?
(2013-04-30)
Using a multimedia questionnaire we explore the extent to which secondary mathematics teachers recognize a hypothesized norm of doing proofs in geometry—that the teacher is in charge of providing the 'given' and the 'prove.' ...
Undergraduate political attitudes: An examination of peer, faculty, and social influences
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-10)
A socialization perspective is used to examine the processes through which undergraduate student political attitudes are influenced by peers, faculty, and social trends. Using the model of undergraduate socialization ...
Decision type, structure, and process evaluation: A contingency model
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1972-05)
Governance proposals for higher education in the United States are often promulgated on the basis of some utopian goal or on the assumption that a given proposal is the panacea for multifaceted problems or that it is equally ...
DIRECTING FOCUS AND ENABLING INQUIRY WITH REPRESENTATIONS OF PRACTICE: WRITTEN CASES, STORYBOARDS, AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators., 2017-10-08)
We discuss affordances and liabilities of using a storyboard to depict a written case of a teacher’s dilemma that involves race, opportunity to learn, and student community. We rely on reflections by the teacher educator ...
College impact, student impact: A reconsideration of the role of students within American higher education
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
American college students tend to be viewed in terms of inputs and outcomes, due in part to the assessment movement and long-standing interest in college impact. A more complete view is one in which the relationship between ...
Community Resources and Educational Opportunities in Detroit: Baseline Assessment of Academic Progress Using the 2005-2009 Cohort of High School Students
(2019-07-15)
This research report contributes a community resource theory of change applied to a Detroit Public Schools (DPS) case study of high school students. The research study examines changes in Detroit Education from 2000 to ...
Revisiting the functions of proof in mathematics classrooms: A view from a theory of instructional exchanges
(2010-10-21)
We consider the functions of proof in mathematics from the perspective of the work of the mathematics teacher. The work of proving and the time spent on proving, what can a teacher account it to? How can he or she justify ...
Latino student transition to college: Assessing difficulties and factors in successful college adjustment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-04)
The primary purpose of this study is to understand the factors that affect Latino student adjustment in the first and second year of college. The study examines data from a national, longitudinal survey along with the ...