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Challenges in educational reform: An experiment on active learning in mathematics
- Source :
- Economics Letters. 156:172-175
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to reason, argument, and communicate using mathematics. These goals are at the core of many educational reforms. A structured pedagogical intervention was created that fostered a more active role of students in the classroom. The intervention was implemented with high fidelity and was internally valid. Students in the control group learned significantly more than those who received treatment. A framework to interpret this result is provided in which learning is the result of student-teacher interaction. The quality of such interaction deteriorated during the intervention.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
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education
Control (management)
jel:I21
Argument
Intervention (counseling)
0502 economics and business
Pedagogy
jel:I28
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Mathematics education
Quality (business)
050207 economics
media_common
Primary & Secondary Education, Educational Assessment, Education, Active learning, Curricular reform, Technology, Field experiments
Mathematics
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05 social sciences
050301 education
Geography
Active learning
jel:O32
Primary & Secondary Education, Educational Assessment, Education, Curricular reform, Field experiments, Technology, Active learning
0503 education
Finance
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01651765
- Volume :
- 156
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Economics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....aea9623097f2ee8eebc1d855042f5333