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Sharon A. Edwards
Department of Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
Email: sedwards@educ.umass.edu
Sharon A. Edwards is a clinical faculty in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retired from public school teaching, she taught primary grades for 32 years at the Mark’s Meadow Demonstration Laboratory School, a public laboratory school in Amherst, Massachusetts. Sharon was the inaugural recipient of the national Good Neighbor Award for Innovation and Excellence in Education given by the State Farm Insurance Companies and the National Council of Teachers of English for her work with young children’s writing. She is the co-author of three books including Kids Have All the Write Stuff, Transforming Learning with New Technologies, Ways of Writing with Young Children.
Robert W. Maloy
Teacher Education & School Improvement
Email: rwm@educ.umass.edu
Robert W. Maloy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Chenyang Xu
Learning Technologies
Email: chenyangxu@umass.edu
Chenyang Xu is a graduate student in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests focus on learning technologies, online educational tools and social media.
4mality Research and Resources
On 4mality...
Robert Maloy, Leena Razzaq, & Sharon A. Edwards. (2014). Learning by Choosing: Fourth Graders Use of an Online Multimedia Tutoring System for Math Problem Solving. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 25(1): 51-64.
Leena Razzaq, Robert W. Maloy, Sharon A. Edwards, Ivon Arroyo, & Beverly P. Woolf. (2011). 4MALITY: Coaching Students with Different Problem Solving Strategies Using an Online Tutoring System. (p. 359-364). In J. A. Konstan, Ricardo Conejo, Jose L, Marzo & Nuria Oliver, User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 19th International Conference, UMAP 2011, Girona, Spain, July 11-15 Proceedings. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Robert W. Maloy, Sharon A. Edwards, & Gordon Anderson. (2010, January-June). Teaching Math Problem Solving Using a Web-based Tutoring System, Learning Games, and Students Writing: Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 11(1&2). Retrieved from http://ojs.jstem.org/index.php?journal=JSTEM&page=article&op=view&path[]=1467&path[]=1294
Sharon A. Edwards, Robert W. Maloy & Gordon Anderson. (2010, February). Classroom Characters Coach Students to Success. Teaching Children Mathematics, 16(6), 342-349.
Sharon A. Edwards, Robert W. Maloy & Gordon Anderson. (2009, Summer). Reading Coaching of Math Word Problems. Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse.
About Early Math Learning
Mathematical MIndsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching. Jo Boaler (Jossey-Bass, 2015).
Project LEAP: Learning Through an Early Algebra Progression, University of Wisconsin (2019)
Researchers Can Detect When Students Aren't Trying on Computerized Tests. Hechinger Report (August 26, 2019)
Boys, in general, do it at twice the rate of girls.
By eighth grade, nearly 16 percent of boys are guessing their way through at least 10 percent of a commonly used reading assessment in U.S. schools.
Black students tend to make rapid guesses 50 percent more often than white students do.
Teaching Resources
MCAS Resources...
MCAS Offical Website: The Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE)
"Readiness Project Members Criticize Final Report on MCAS and Assessments; Say MCAS Overhaul is Urgently Needed to address Negative Consequences" (2008)
"Readiness Project Members Criticize Final Report on MCAS and Assessments; Say MCAS Overhaul is Urgently Needed to address Negative Consequences" (2008)
Fourth Grade Math Books and Articles
Technology Transforming Learning. A digital magazine curated by Sharon Edwards. Features new resources for math teaching.Clement, Rod. Counting on Frank. Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1991.
Leedy, Loreen. Mission Addition. Holiday House, 1997.---. Substraction Action. Holiday House, 2000.---. Fraction Action. Holiday House, 1994.---. Measuring Penny. Holt, 1997.---. "2 x 2 = Boo! A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories." 1995.
Tang, Greg. "The Grapes of Math." Scholastic, 2001.---. "Math for All Seasons." Scholastic, 2002.
Leedy, Loreen. Mission Addition. Holiday House, 1997.---. Substraction Action. Holiday House, 2000.---. Fraction Action. Holiday House, 1994.---. Measuring Penny. Holt, 1997.---. "2 x 2 = Boo! A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories." 1995.
Tang, Greg. "The Grapes of Math." Scholastic, 2001.---. "Math for All Seasons." Scholastic, 2002.
On the Statistical Analysis of MCAS Results
"Review of the Statistical Analysis of MCAS Results by the Massachusetts DOE" by Oscar Loureiro (2005) "Review of the Statistical Analysis of School Performance in Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service" by Oscar Loureiro (2005)"An Interactive Framework for the Statistical Analysis and Retrieval of MCAS Results" by Oscar Loureiro (2005)On Item Response Theory (IRT) and Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)"Generalization of IRT to Multidimensional Outcomes." by Oscar Loureiro (2005)
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