Mathematics education research: A guide for the research mathematician (Q2709330)

This book introduces research mathematicians to education research. Mathematics education research is research using the paradigms and methods of educational research and its applications to mathematics teaching and learning. Most simply, mathematics education research is inquiry by carefully developing research methods aimed at providing evidence about the nature and relationships of many mathematics learning and teaching phenomena. It seeks to clarify the phenomena, illuminate them, explain how they are related to other phenomena, and explain how this may be related to undergraduate mathematics course organization and teaching. Mathematics education research has often been associated with innovations in curriculum such as calculus reform, statistics education, and the use of computation and graphing technology in instruction. This work presents a non-jargon introduction for educational research, surveys the more commonly used research methods, along with their rationales and assumptions, and provides background and careful discussions to help research mathematicians read or listen to education research more critically. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book consists of 12 chapters divided into three parts: quantitative research, qualitative research and using mathematics education research appropriately. This guide is of practical interest to university-based research mathematicians, as it introduces the methodology of quantitative and qualitative research in education; provides critical guidelines for assessing reliability and validity of mathematics education research; and explains how to use online database resources to locate education research.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis book also will be valuable to graduate students in mathematics who are planning academic careers, and to mathematics department chairs and their deans.