"Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning" ed. by Frank K. Jr. Lester

This book unites current research to provide new conceptualizations of research problems, and to suggest possible research programs to move the field forward. In studying the existing research, the authors found that the community has maintained its focus on problems of learning, teaching, teacher education, assessment, technology, and social and cultural aspects of mathematics education, while some new areas of interest have emerged or been expanded.

This issue allows educators to step back and look at each of these areas to see where mathematics education research has been and where it should be going to enable the field to answer the questions about education that practitioners, policy makers, and politicians are asking.

The audience: mathematics education researchers and other scholars conducting work in mathematics education. This group includes college and university faculty, graduate students, investigators in research and development centers, and staff members at federal, state, and local agencies that conduct and use research within the discipline of mathematics.

The intent of the authors of this volume is to provide useful perspectives as well as pertinent information for conducting investigations that are informed by previous work. The Handbook should also be a useful textbook for graduate research seminars. In addition to the audience mentioned above, the present Handbook contains chapters that should be relevant to four other groups: teacher educators, curriculum developers, state and national policy makers, and test developers and others involved with assessment.

Contents
Preface
Part I - Foundations
1. Putting Philosophy to Work: Coping with Multiple Theoretical Perspectives
2. Theory in Mathematics Education Scholarship
3. Method
Part II - Teachers and Teaching
4. Assessing Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge: What Knowledge Matters and What Evidence Counts?
5. The Mathematical Education and Development of Teachers
Chapter 6. Mathematics Teaching and Classroom Practice
Chapter 7. Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs and Affect
Part III - Influences on Student Outcomes
8. How Curriculum Influences Student Learning
9. The Effects of Classroom Mathematics Teaching on Student' Learning
10. Culture, Race, Power and Mathematics Education: Diversity in Mathematics Education Center for Learning and Teaching
11. The Role of Culture in Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Part IV - Study and Learning
12. Early Childhood Mathematics Learning
13. Whole Number Concepts and Operations
14. Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning: Toward a Theoretical Framework for Research
Part IV - Students and Learning
15. Early Algebra and Algebraic Reasoning
16. Learning and Teaching Algebra at the Middle School Through College Levels: Building Meaning for Symbols and Their Manipulation
17. Problem Solving and Modeling
18. Toward Comprehensive Perspectives on the Learning and Teaching of Proof
19. The Development of Geometric and Spatial Thinking?
20. Research in Probability: Responding to Classroom Realities
21. Research on Statistics Leearning and Reasoning
22. Mathematics Thinking and Learning at Post-Secondary Level
Part V - Assessment
23. Keeping Learning on Track: Classroom Assessment and the Regulation of Learning
24. High-Stakes Testing in Mathematics
25. Large-Scale Assessment and Mathematics Education
Part VI - Issues and Perspectives
26. Issues in Access and Equity in Mathematics Education
27. Research on Technology in Mathematics Education: A Perspective of Constructs
28. Engineering Change in Mathematics Education: Research, Policy, and Practice
29. Educational Policy Research and Mathematics Education
30. Mathematics Content Specification in the Age of Assessment
31. Reflections on the State of Research and Trends in Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning: From Here to Utopia
About the Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index