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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: An examination of how people with diverse backgrounds talk about mathematics teaching and learning face-to-face and on-line Abstract: This dissertation is about the interaction between language and mathematics education. The purpose of the study is to explore how diverse members of the mathematics education community (in-service secondary mathematics teachers, pre-service secondary mathematics teachers, university mathematicians and university mathematics educators) talked about a multimedia case study, the "Making Weighty Decisions" (Bowers, Doerr, Masingila, & McClain, 2000) when they interacted face-to-face and online. Case discussions of 19 participants throughout several professional conversations were examined by making use of (1) computer mediated discourse analysis, a discourse analysis approach to identify patterns of structure and meaning in language use in computer-mediated communication, and (2) content analysis, a method designed for the objective, systematic, and quantitative analysis of communication (Berelson, 1952). Gender, professional category and mode of communication are the characteristics. Rate of participation and content of the communication are the critical outcomes. The dissertation is primarily based on breaking the transcripts of the case study discussions into observable and recordable units, such as postings, turns, words and themes (Berelson, 1952). Tables, figures, and graphs are the major data presentation tools. |
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