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Mathematics textbook use by secondary school teachers: a case study

2002· dissertation· W7133056273 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gino Sturino

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2002
Typedissertation
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCurriculumConnected MathematicsMathematics curriculumSchool teachersReform mathematicsSection (typography)Government (linguistics)Core-Plus Mathematics Project
DOInot available

Abstract

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This research examined the ways two secondary school teachers used Mathematics 9 (Ontario Edition) (Addison-Wesley, 1999) for planning and classroom purposes. The aims were to determine how these teachers used the textbook in classrooms, relative to other materials, at different stages of curriculum implementation and in regard to its embedded features. An instrumental case study approach was employed. Collected were teacher selection, classroom observation, document and semi-structured interview data. Each classroom was observed over a three-month period for approximately 12 hours and each teacher was interviewed for approximately seven hours. Both teachers were in their second year of using Mathematics 9 when teaching the Principles of Mathematics, Grade 9, Academic Course mandated by the Government of Ontario through The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10: Mathematics, 1999. Curriculum implementation was also in its second year. Observations revealed that both teachers employed the same teaching approaches and used the textbook similarly in each situation. The textbook to some degree affected the extent to which each strategy was employed. Both teachers continually modified how they used Mathematics 9 as curriculum implementation progressed, that is, they used it differently before, during and after the initial year of implementation—the teachers indicated that, during the first year of implementation, department heads and the textbook greatly influenced their planning. A combination of factors caused the teachers to adapt a modified version of the textbook's chapter and section structure for personal planning purposes. Although the teachers had greater freedom when planning individual lessons, they continued to use the textbook, albeit differently depending on the type of lesson planned.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0090.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.428
Teacher spread0.363 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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