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Teaching, Rather Than Teachers, As a Path Toward Improving Classroom Instruction by Hiebert, James, Morris, Anne K.

“…For several historical and cultural reasons, the United States has long pursued a strategy of improving teaching by improving teachers. The rarely questioned…”
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Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in Planning and Evaluating Instruction: What Can Preservice Teachers Learn? by Morris, Anne K., Hiebert, James, Spitzer, Sandy M.

“…The goal of this study is to uncover the successes and challenges that preservice teachers are likely to experience as they unpack lesson-level mathematical…”
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Introduction: Building Knowledge Bases and Improving Systems of Practice by Morris, Anne K., Hiebert, James

“…In the introductory essay to this special issue, we argue that a knowledge base for teacher education will grow only if the field attends directly to the…”
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Building a Knowledge Base for Teacher Education: An Experience in K–8 Mathematics Teacher Preparation by Hiebert, James, Morris, Anne K.

“…Consistent with the theme of this issue, we describe the details of one continuing effort to build knowledge for teacher education. We argue that building a…”
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Effects of Teacher Preparation Courses: Do Graduates Use What They Learned to Plan Mathematics Lessons? by Morris, Anne K., Hiebert, James

“…We investigated whether the content pre-service teachers studied in elementary teacher preparation mathematics courses was related to their performance on a…”
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Creating Shared Instructional Products: An Alternative Approach to Improving Teaching by Morris, Anne K., Hiebert, James

“…To solve two enduring problems in education—unacceptably large variation in learning opportunities for students across classrooms and little continuing…”
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Preparing Teachers to Learn from Teaching by Hiebert, James, Morris, Anne K., Berk, Dawn, Jansen, Amanda

“…The authors propose a framework for teacher preparation programs that aims to help prospective teachers learn how to teach from studying teaching. The…”
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Extending Ideas on Improving Teaching: Response to Lampert; Lewis, Perry, Friedkin, and Roth; and Zeichner by Hiebert, James, Morris, Anne K.

“…This article presents the authors' response to the comments of their article about extending ideas on improving teaching. The authors continue the conversation…”
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Assessing Pre-Service Teachers' Skills for Analyzing Teaching by Morris, Anne K

“…This study investigated the learning-from-practice skills that pre-service teachers possess when they enter teacher preparation programs in the United States…”
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Factors Affecting Pre-Service Teachers' Evaluations of the Validity of Students' Mathematical Arguments in Classroom Contexts by Morris, Anne K.

“…This study was designed to identify the types of understandings, skills, and beliefs that affect pre-service teachers' evaluations of students' mathematical…”
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Openness and Measurement: Two Principles for Improving Educational Practice and Shared Instructional Products by Morris, Anne K., Hiebert, James

“…Two studies were conducted to identify the conditions under which instructors teaching the same mathematics teacher preparation course would continuously…”
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Using “Lack of Fidelity” to Improve Teaching by Morris, Anne K.

“…A procedure is presented for learning from variations that occur when instructors implement lesson plans designed by others. This kind of variation, occurring…”
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Development of Logical Reasoning: Children's Ability to Verbally Explain the Nature of the Distinction Between Logical and Nonlogical Forms of Argument by Morris, Anne K

“…Previous research by D. Moshman and B. Franks (1986) supported the hypothesis that children do not explicitly understand the nature of the distinction between…”
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Understanding of Logical Necessity: Developmental Antecedents and Cognitive Consequences by Morris, Anne K., Sloutsky, Vladimir M.

“…Does abstract reasoning develop naturally, and does instruction contribute to its development? In an attempt to answer these questions, this article…”
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Building a Knowledge Base for Teacher Education: An Experience in K-8 Mathematics Teacher Preparation by Hiebert, James, Morris, Anne K

“…Consistent with the theme of this issue, we describe the details of one continuing effort to build knowledge for teacher education. We argue that building a…”
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Mathematical Reasoning: Adults' Ability to Make the Inductive-Deductive Distinction by Morris, Anne K.

“…In this study, I examined adults' ability to distinguish necessary deductive and indeterminate inductive forms of argument in mathematics. Only 30% of a sample…”
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Doing Research: A New Researcher's Guide. Research in Mathematics Education by Hiebert, James, Cai, Jinfa, Hwang, Stephen, Morris, Anne K, Hohensee, Charles

“…This book is about scientific inquiry. Designed for early and mid-career researchers, it is a practical manual for conducting and communicating high-quality…”
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Developing Concepts of Mathematical Structure: Pre-Arithmetic Reasoning versus Extended Arithmetic Reasoning by Morris, Anne K

“…Examines students' understanding of the quantitative relationships, operations, and properties of relationships and operations that are introduced in…”
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