Books written by Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding

    By test scores, or almost any other method of accounting, ELS has a successful track record in education reform. ... the school board must unanimously approve it, and 80 percent of school staff must agree on the proposal.

  • Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding

    This book offers insights into how educators can enable students to think critically, transfer skills and knowledge, and be flexible problem solvers…both inside and outside the classroom walls.

  • How We Think: A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and Its Educational Applications

    ... Mathematics Teaching and Learning Greer/Mukhopadhyay/Powell/Nelson-Barber (Eds.) Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education Kaput/Carraher/Blanton (Eds.) Algebra in the Early Grades Lajoie Reflections on Statistics: Learning, ...

  • Mathematical Problem Solving

    Perhaps the first rigorous coding scheme in mathematics education was the one developed by Kilpatrick in his (1967) dissertation. Unlike most AI schemes, Kilpatrick's analyses coded specifically ...

  • Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

    This volume is a result of mathematicians, cognitive scientists, mathematics educators, and classroom teachers combining their efforts to help address issues of importance to classroom instruction in mathematics.

  • Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving

    In those conferences, interdisciplinary teams reviewed major topic areas and put together distillations of what was known about them.* A more recent conference -- upon which this volume is based -- offered a forum in which various people ...

  • Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving

    In those conferences, interdisciplinary teams reviewed major topic areas and put together distillations of what was known about them.* A more recent conference -- upon which this volume is based -- offered a forum in which various people ...

  • How We Think: A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

    What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes a groundbreaking theory and model for how we think and act in the classroom and beyond.

  • Assessing Mathematical Proficiency

    This volume presents the results of the discussions. It highlights the kinds of information that different assessments can offer, including many examples of some of the best mathematics assessments worldwide.

  • Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education

    ... telecourse lacked that essence. To be sure, there is a legitimate—perhaps even a very important—role for telecourses ... Universe is to serve that need, not merely with adequate education, but with the very best that can be created. Two ...