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Study title

Characterisations and Issues of Mathematics Teaching in Undergraduate Tutorials, 1999

Creator

Jaworski, B., University of Oxford, Department of Educational Studies
Hegedus, S., University of Oxford, Department of Educational Studies
Nardi, E., University of Oxford, Department of Educational Studies

Study number / PID

4617 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4617-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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This research sought to integrate findings from two previous studies: a study of first-year undergraduates' learning difficulties in their encounter with the abstractions of advanced mathematics within a tutorial based pedagogy and a study of the tutors' responses to and interpretations of the learning difficulties.

Then, through a semi-structured interview process, the researchers examined how tutors thought about their teaching practices. Six individual university based tutors were interviewed weekly for 8 weeks over the course of a university term. The tutors explored teaching approaches and their relationship to epistemological issues in the mathematical content of the tutorials.
Main Topics:

Education; group work; higher education; mathematics education; mathematics; students; teaching methods; teaching; tutorials, undergraduate courses; undergraduates; universities, university courses.

Topics

Higher and further education

Keywords

GROUP WORK (TEACHING METHOD)HIGHER EDUCATIONMATHEMATICSMATHEMATICS EDUCATIONTEACHINGTEACHING METHODSTUTORIALSUNDERGRADUATESUNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITY COURSES

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1999 - 31/03/1999

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study
with longitudinal element in repeated interviews over an 8 week period.

Analysis unit

Individuals
Subnational

Universe

Oxford University Mathematics Institute 1st year undergraduate tutors, during 1999.

Sampling procedure

Purposive selection/case studies

Kind of data

Text
in-depth/ semi-structured interviews

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Funding information

Grant number

R000222688

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2003

Terms of data access

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Related publications

  • Nardi, E., Hegedus, S. and Jaworski, B. (1999) Undergraduate mathematics teaching project :: a methodological report of work in progress [Research report], : British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics.
  • Jaworski, B., Nardi, E. and Hegedus, S. (1999) 'Characterising undergraduate mathematics teaching' in O. Zaslavsky (ed.), , Haifa, Israel: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 121-128.
  • Jaworski, B. (2002) 'Sensitivity and Challenge in University Mathematics Tutorial Teaching', Educational Studies in Mathematics, 71-94