Unravelling the myth of effective teaching in mathematics

dc.contributor.authorPrendergast, Mark
dc.contributor.authorO'Donoghue, John
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-06T11:06:27Z
dc.date.available2020-08-06T11:06:27Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2020-07-31T10:06:31Z
dc.description.abstractEffective teaching is the backbone of any successful education system with many arguing that it is the single biggest contributor to student success. However despite such importance, significant differences in teacher effectiveness are still evident in Irish classrooms at all levels of education. This research investigates the influence that individual teachers can have on students’ enjoyment of mathematics at second level and attempts to unravel the myth of effective teaching. The research started out as a follow on study that further analysed data collected by the authors when they designed a pedagogical framework with the aim of promoting student interest in algebra through effective teaching of the domain. This paper focuses entirely upon the quantitative results of the evaluation of that study with regard to whether there are differences in the enjoyment scores of students’ in different classes as a result of their individual teachers. The paper also looks to unravel the myth of effective teaching through a series of focus group interviews and a detailed literature review.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationPrendergast, M. and O'Donoghue, J. (2014) 'Unravelling the Myth of Effective Teaching in Mathematics'. Irish Journal of Academic Practice, 3 (1), Article 8, (22 pp). doi: 10.21427/D7WX43en
dc.identifier.doi10.21427/D7WX43en
dc.identifier.endpage22en
dc.identifier.issn2009-7387
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Journal of Academic Practiceen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10361
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherLearning, Teaching and Technology Centre (LLTC), Technological University Dublinen
dc.relation.urihttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijap/vol3/iss1/8/
dc.rights© 2014 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en
dc.subjectEffective teachingen
dc.subjectEnjoyment scaleen
dc.subjectMathematics educationen
dc.subjectQuantitativeen
dc.subjectSecond levelen
dc.titleUnravelling the myth of effective teaching in mathematicsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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