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Title: The Effects of Instructors and Student Activity in Learning from Instructional Calculus Videos
We report the results of an investigation into the factors that affect students’ learning from calculus instructional videos. We designed 32 sets of videos and assessed students’ learning with pre- and post-video questions. We examined how students’ engagement and self-identified ways of interacting with the videos connected to their learning. Our results indicate that there is a complicated relationship between the student, curriculum, instructional practices, and the video content, and that the effectiveness of instructional videos may be contextualized by both instructional practices and the extent to which the understandings supported in the videos are compatible with the meanings promoted during instruction.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1712312
PAR ID:
10300413
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Olanoff, D.; Johnson, K.; Spitzer, S.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1733-1737
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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