Pugalee, David K.

UNCC

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Navigating the epistemological rocky waters of mathematics education : an instrumental multiple case study 2009 813 The various beliefs about mathematics and its role in society led to differing beliefs about what it means to learn mathematics and how best to teach it. Mathematics education research and organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of Mat...
The effects of students' profile, communication, and discourse in an Advanced Placement statistics classroom 2009 514 This study sought to describe the communicative aspect that should be part of any secondary mathematics classroom and, more specifically, the statistics classroom. Focusing on the observation of students allowed for a detailed account of the learning...
The effects of explicit self-regulated learning strategy instruction on mathematics achievement 2009 1444 Self-regulated learning includes the use of a set of strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-evaluating students’ efforts toward reaching specific learning goals. This study examined the extent to which explicit self-regulated learning strategy...
A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher 2011 271 Using a qualitative case study approach, this research explored the perceptions of middle school students on the role of their mathematics teacher in their success or failure to achieve in his mathematics classroom. Also, the study examined the teach...
A case study of Hispanic middle school students in an ESL classroom: Discourses in academic reading instruction 2010 2526 This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month per...
Writing to learn statistics in an Advanced Placement Statistics course 2012 1154 This study investigated the use of writing in a statistics classroom to learn if writing provided a rich description of problem-solving processes of students as they solved problems. Through analysis of 329 written samples provided by students, it wa...
EFFECTS AND PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON THE MATHEMATICAL ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN A STEM COURSE: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY 2014 5964 To understand how to identify and examine factors that influence parental involvement and math achievement of high school students, I conducted a mixed- methods study was guided by the following questions: 1. What are the perceptions of students, te...