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A comparative synthesis of UK mathematics education research: what are we talking about and do we align with international discourse?

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posted on 2020-01-13, 14:24 authored by Rachel Marks, Colin FosterColin Foster, Nancy Barclay, Alison Barnes, Páraic Treacy
This paper makes an important and original contribution to the updating of methodological approaches to research syntheses. We analysed all 813 Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics from 2003 to 2018, first using a quantitative corpus-survey and qualitative thematic coding and, again, independently, using topic modelling. We found strong convergence between findings from the different methods. We compare our findings to those from an earlier Proceedings review (1995-2002) and to a recent review of the corpus of publications in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education and Educational Studies in Mathematics, as well as to a review by the European Society for Research into Learning Mathematics and several other reviews. We found considerable similarity between the issues discussed, and similar trends over time. We conclude that the efficiency of topic modelling makes it a powerful option to include among a range of methodological approaches to research review.

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British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM) [https://bsrlm.org.uk/]

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

Published in

Research in Mathematics Education

Volume

23

Issue

1

Pages

39 - 62

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research in Mathematics Education on 18 May 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14794802.2020.1725612.

Acceptance date

2020-01-10

Publication date

2020-05-18

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

1479-4802

eISSN

1754-0178

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Colin Foster. Deposit date: 13 January 2020

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