Abstract
Siegler's rule assessment methodology was used to investigate the cognitive effects of a 32 hour mathematics in-service workshop on 28 elementary shool teachers. This paper reports on attempts (a) to assess the levels of cognitive understanding of the basic concepts of proportion, probability, and correlation among elementary teachers, and (b) to change teachers' levels in understanding these concepts by a method of "direct instruction". Significant improvements were noted in the levels of cognitive development associated with the concept of proportion. Though nonsignificant improvements were noted in the concepts of probability and correlation, all the teachers were assigned to the highest cognitive rule associated with the probability concept at the end of the workshop.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 267-288 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Instructional Science |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1991 |