Examining purposeful researchable questions in mathematics education

Natasha N. Ramsay-Jordan, Andrea Crenshaw, Cliff Chestnutt
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Often general, and frequently involving scholarly concepts, research questions are the cornerstone of studies. Thus, from their precise wording to their context, research questions play a vital role in uncovering information, determining answers given by participants, and drawing conclusions. However, poorly structured research questions and misalignments to purpose within theoretical and empirical studies can lead to miscommunication and unanswered queries. To this point, this paper discusses the importance of asking purposeful researchable questions in mathematics education and examines what purposeful questioning in mathematics education using quantitative and qualitative research designs entails. An extensive review of literature, is presented with the purpose of identifying strategies for asking purposeful questions, exploring various criteria for judging researchable questions in mathematics education, and discussing the importance of aligning research questions to methodology and frameworks. The key findings reveal that ambiguities of language and the powerful force of context in interpreting the meaning of questions and answers could influence the impact of studies. Implications exist for mathematics and science education scholars who, face various challenges in asking questions that will produce what they want to know. The paper concludes with a brief discussion as to the significance and possibilities of purposeful researchable questions in mathematics education.
考察数学教育中有目的的研究性问题
研究问题通常是一般性的,经常涉及学术概念,是研究的基石。因此,从他们的精确措辞到他们的背景,研究问题在揭示信息,确定参与者给出的答案和得出结论方面发挥着至关重要的作用。然而,在理论和实证研究中,结构不良的研究问题和与目的的错位可能导致误解和未回答的问题。为此,本文讨论了在数学教育中提出有目的的可研究问题的重要性,并通过定量和定性研究设计来检验数学教育中有目的的问题需要什么。广泛的文献回顾,提出的目的是确定提出有目的的问题的策略,探索在数学教育中判断可研究问题的各种标准,并讨论将研究问题与方法和框架结合起来的重要性。主要发现表明,语言的模糊性和上下文在解释问题和答案的意义方面的强大力量可能会影响研究的效果。这对数学和科学教育学者来说是有影响的,他们在提出问题时面临各种挑战,这些问题将产生他们想知道的东西。文章最后简要论述了有目的的研究性问题在数学教育中的意义和可能性。
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