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Open AccessScience teachers’ collaborative innovative activities: the role of professional development and professional experience
Despite the significant research interest in teachers’ innovative activities, the role of work experience and professional development (PD) as predictors of science teachers’ innovative work behaviour has rare...
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Open AccessHow does technology challenge teacher education?
The paper presents an overview of challenges and demands related to teachers’ digital skills and technology integration into educational content and processes. The paper raises a debate how technologies have c...
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Open AccessImproving rational number knowledge using the NanoRoboMath digital game
Rational number knowledge is a crucial feature of primary school mathematics that predicts students’ later mathematics achievement. Many students struggle with the transition from natural number to rational nu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Promoting Adaptive Number Knowledge Through Deliberate Practice in the Number Navigation Game
Strengthening adaptive expertise in mathematics education through deliberate practice is a challenging task in traditional classrooms
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How to Deal with the Complexity in Research on Workplace Learning
Workplace learning takes place in conditions that are, in many respects, different from that occurring in on educational institution. Due to this, essential workplace learning may not always be apparent and ma...
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Correction to: Student Teachers’ and Experienced Teachers’ Professional Vision of Students’ Understanding of the Rational Number Concept
The published online article contains mistake and the authors would like to correct them.
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Open AccessStudent Teachers’ and Experienced Teachers’ Professional Vision of Students’ Understanding of the Rational Number Concept
The aim of this study was to investigate differences in student teachers’ and experienced teachers’ professional vision in natural settings and to elicit clues of the relation of in-the-moment noticing and ins...
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The Number Navigation Game: An Overview of an Iterative Development Process
The present chapter provides an overview of the iterative development and testing of the Number Navigation Game (NNG), a game-based learning environment which aims to strengthen primary school students’ flexib...
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Open AccessUnderstanding students’ game experiences throughout the developmental process of the number navigation game
Serious games for learning have received increased attention in recent years. However, empirical studies on students’ gaming experiences throughout the developmental process of serious games and discussions re...
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Open AccessWhat makes mathematical word problem solving challenging? Exploring the roles of word problem characteristics, text comprehension, and arithmetic skills
In this study we investigated word-problem (WP) item characteristics, individual differences in text comprehension and arithmetic skills, and their relations to mathematical WP-solving. The participants were 8...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Retention of University Teachers and Doctoral Students in UNIPS Pedagogical Online Courses
Online education provides learning opportunities to a global audience. Most popular MOOC platforms have millions of users and MOOC designers are already competing with each other on how to spark and retain the...
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Everyday Context and Mathematical Learning: On the Role of Spontaneous Mathematical Focusing Tendencies in the Development of Numeracy
This chapter summarizes classical studies on numeracy development and highlights the impact of children’s own, self-initiated numerical activities in informal everyday situations on the learning trajectories t...
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Expertise Development and Scientific Thinking
The focus of expertise research is on exceptionally advanced performance in professions that require long academic—and at least partly scientific—education before entering into work. Surprisingly, only a few s...
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Cultivating mathematical skills: from drill-and-practice to deliberate practice
Contemporary theories of expertise development highlight the crucial role of deliberate practice in the development of high level performance. Deliberate practice is practice that intentionally aims at improvi...
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The Role of Prior Knowledge and Students’ Perceptions in Learning of Biomedical Sciences
The present study investigates whether medical students’ prior knowledge and perceptions about basic biomedical sciences predict learning of these topics at early phases of the medical education. Participants (N ...
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Between two Advisors: Interconnecting Academic and Workplace Settings in an Emerging Field
This article examines a new training design for continuing professional development that aims to support the learning of the novel knowledge and skills needed in emerging professional fields by interconnecting...
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Neuroscientific studies of mathematical thinking and learning: a critical look from a mathematics education viewpoint
In this commentary we take a critical look at the various studies being reported in this issue about the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and mathematics, from a mathematics education viewpoint. Aft...
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Preschool spontaneous focusing on numerosity predicts rational number conceptual knowledge 6 years later
Recent evidence suggests that early natural number knowledge is a predictor of later rational number conceptual knowledge, even though students’ difficulties with rational numbers have also been explained by t...
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Describing and Studying Domain-Specific Serious Games: Introduction
The past decade witnessed increasing interest and extremely positive beliefs in the use of games, and especially so-called “serious” games, as educational tools. This AGBL-book on “Describing and studying doma...
