Professional noticing coherence: exploring relationships between component processes

Jonathan Thomas, David Dueber, Molly H. Fisher, Cindy Jong, Edna O. Schack

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Abstract

Teacher noticing and related variants have ascended in prominence among the mathematics education research community. While the component processes of such noticing (e.g., attending, interpreting and deciding) have been cast as interrelated, capturing the relationships amongst the components has been more elusive. We focused on the component processes of teacher noticing with particular attention given to interrelatedness. Specifically, we were interested in how and the extent to which the component processes of professional noticing (attending, interpreting, deciding) are thematically connected when preservice elementary teachers are engaged in an assessment approximating professional noticing. We refer to this thematic linkage in this paper as coherence. Our findings suggest a complex interplay between the creation and continuation of themes when enacting professional noticing, and the quality of such noticing.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)361-379
Number of pages19
JournalMathematical Thinking and Learning
Volume25
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This research was supported by two collaborative grants from the National Science Foundation 1) Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) Program Award # 1043667, 1043656, 1043831 and 2) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program Award # 1431133, 1431631, 1431098. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect views of the NSF.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China1431631, 1431133, 1043831, 1043656, 1043667, 1431098
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China

    Keywords

    • Teacher noticing
    • numeracy
    • preservice teachers
    • teacher practice

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Mathematics
    • Education
    • Developmental and Educational Psychology

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