This chapter arose from the need to introduce researchers, including Master and PhD
students, to design-based research (DBR). In Sect. 16.1 we address key features of DBR …

We assume that task design-based research refers to any research that is experimentally
based on an educational context and pays special attention to the description, analysis, and …

Research in tertiary mathematics education is a fast growing field as evidenced by the
success of the Topic Study Group on Mathematics Education at Tertiary Level in the …

The aim of this paper is explain how the notion of “study and research course”, a recent
construct in the anthropological theory of didactics, provides a general tool to model …

Persistence in STEM majors largely depends on persistence in mathematics, which in turn is
predicted by a number of student characteristics including mathematics self-efficacy. While …

University mathematics education (UME) is considered, in this paper, as a kind of didactic
practice–characterised by institutional settings and by the purpose of inducting students into …

Taking the example of teaching mathematical modelling in university degrees, this paper
focuses on how the unit of analysis adopted by different research frameworks in …

Como podemos observar, aparecen tanto libros dirigidos a las matemáticas aplicadas a la
economía como libros exclusivamente matemáticos. Salvo el volumen de Chiang (2006), el …

The founder of the anthropological theory of the didactical, Yves Chevallard, was recently
awarded the Hans Freudenthal medal, given in recognition of “a major cumulative program …

Considering the general problem of integrating mathematical modelling into current
educational systems, this paper focuses on the ineluctable step of the professional …