Interaction Between Instructional Practices, Faculty Beliefs and Developmental Mathematics Curriculum

Download or read book Interaction Between Instructional Practices, Faculty Beliefs and Developmental Mathematics Curriculum written by Yevgeniy Milman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One is a standard developmental algebra curriculum and the other curriculum is based on quantitative literacy. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, classroom observations and field notes. The results indicate an alignment between the professed beliefs and enacted practices for all but one instructor in this study. The findings imply that curriculum plays a significant role when its intended design correlates with instructors' belief systems. The study also discusses the differences in instructional practices across the quantitative literacy and elementary algebra curricula taught by the instructors in this study.