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2013 Conference Proceedings - University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Table 2Number <strong>of</strong> teachers per grade levelGrade LevelNumber <strong>of</strong> ParticipantsEarly Elementary (K – 2) 1Late Elementary (3 – 5) 2Middle (7 – 8) 5High School (9 – 12) 12College or <strong>University</strong> 3Each teacher’s response for each prompt related to each SMP was compiled. The responseswere qualitatively examined. An initial researcher using grounded theory principles (Strauss &Corbin, 1998) performed the primary analysis and coding by looking for emerging and crosscuttingthemes. For reliability purposes, two additional researchers conducted a secondaryanalysis <strong>of</strong> the emerging themes and codes delineated through the initial analysis. Anydiscrepancies among the three analyses were discussed and reconciled through face-to-face andelectronic communications.Due to the differences in the descriptions provided for each SMP, emerging themes andcodes for teacher responses for Prompt 1 were classified with respect to each individual SMP.On the other hand, in examining responses to Prompt 2, although the standards differ, teacherresponses were such that emerging themes allowed for categorization by a singular classificationscheme. Due to page limitations for papers in these proceedings, we share only the results forboth prompts across the first four SMP.Table 3 presents the classifications that emerged for the first four SMP, and the counts for thenumber <strong>of</strong> teachers associated with each classification. If a teacher’s response was categorizedunder two or more classifications, each was counted. Counts were not recorded as to whether ornot a response was made only one time, a response was unrelated to the standard, or if noresponse was made. Consequently, the total count is not always 23 for each standard. Forexample, <strong>of</strong> the responses analyzed for Standard 1, 26 themes emerged and were cross-cut,linked, and categorized into the four classifications. This indicates that at least one personresponded in a way that allowed for multiple classification <strong>of</strong> what he or she identified asnoteworthy in SMP 1. Alternatively, we were able to only categorize 15 themes among theresponses for Standard 4 into two classifications. This lower number <strong>of</strong> themes for SMP 4largely indicates a lack <strong>of</strong> response or responses did not address the standard.<strong>Proceedings</strong> <strong>of</strong> the 40 th Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the Research Council on Mathematics Learning <strong>2013</strong> 96

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