Document Type
Presentation
Language
eng
Publication Date
4-14-2012
Publisher
American Educational Research Association
Source Publication
AERA Online Paper Repository
Abstract
This paper reports the results from an exploratory study of K-8 pre-service teachers’ inductive reasoning. The analysis of 130 written solutions to seven tasks and 77 reflective journals completed by 20 pre-service teachers lead to descriptions of inductive reasoning processes, i.e. specializing, conjecturing, generalizing, and justifying, in the problem-solving contexts. The uncovered characterizations of the four inductive reasoning processes were further used to describe pathways of successful generalizations. The results highlight the importance of specializing and justifying in constructing powerful generalizations. Implications for teacher education are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Magiera, Marta, "K-8 Preservice Teachers’ Inductive Reasoning in the Problem-Solving Contexts" (2012). Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 84.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mscs_fac/84
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Comments
Presented version. Presentation given at 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 2012. Publisher link. © 2012 Marta Magiera. Used with permission.