Levi Elipane

Philippine Normal University | PNU · Research Center for Teacher Quality

This chapter presents a critical analysis of educational research as reflected in doctoral dissertations completed during the past decade in mathematics education in the Philippines. It analyzes the published dissertations with respect to the topics in the discipline they address, the targeted participants in terms of educational level and roles of...

With the shift of learning modality from face-to-face to online distance learning, teaching Mathematics has been linked to new challenges and constraints. This paper investigates how radian measure can be taught via distance learning delivery modality. An Online Lesson Study was conducted, and the research lesson was implemented for first-year coll...

The study described a mentoring program of a state-funded research and its effects on research and reflective practices to graduate students. Participatory Action Research (PAR), designed as a methodical and program framework, engaged nine mentors (researchers of a state-funded research) and 29 graduate students (purposively invited) to training-ba...

span>This study investigated the utilization of example-conclusion map (ECM), a tool in teaching simple interest to senior high school in a university in the Philippines. With the purpose of presenting the topic in a more relevant way to learners under the Accountancy and Business Management strand, the researchers engaged in a lesson study. The fo...

The study used the TPACK (technological pedagogical content knowledge) framework to determine the STEM teacher's experiences and practices. Data were sourced through interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis from purposively selected 106 STEM teachers (from randomly identified universities/colleges of the 17 regions of the country)....

The study used the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) framework to determine the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) teachers' experiences and practices. Data were sourced through interviews, classroom observations and document analysis from purposively selected 106 STEM teachers (from randomly identified universities...

p dir="ltr"> This paper reflects on the outcome of lesson study in teaching the concept of algebraic equations utilizing quasi-variables. It also concurrently examines the integration of Ignatian values and social issues in learning the said concept. This study aimed to establish a culture of planning, collaboration, and reflection in developing th...

This paper probes, through a Lesson Study, how discovery learning and contextualized problems can be employed in teaching the mean of grouped data. The research lesson was implemented Grade 7 students of a national high school in Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines. Through thematic analysis, three issues emerged from conducting the Lesson Study: (1)...

Teacher's pedagogy is a key factor in achieving better learning from both the teacher and the students through the application of theory and practice in teaching a particular subject and its context. In view of enhancing the teaching pedagogy of teachers, this paper sought to investigate the impact of Lesson Study (LS) in teaching pedagogy through...

This paper explores Van Hiele’s Model's use in planning the tasks to identify the properties of quadrilaterals. Lesson study, a professional development program that enables teachers to collaborate to improve teaching and learning quality, was utilized to get necessary data needed for the study. The authors aimed to see to what extent Van Hiele’s M...

This paper aimed to explain how students construct the concept of the area of oblique triangles. Through Lesson Study using the Theory of Didactical Situations, the researchers designed a research lesson with the raison d'être of improving the teaching of trigonometry. The research lesson was implemented to junior high school student-participants i...

This study explored the use of Theory of Didactic Situation (TDS) in planning and teaching Charles' Law to Grade 9 students. A Lesson Study was conducted to seek how the notion of TDS would enable students to construct meanings out of the milieu designed by the researchers. A science experiment and a hot-air balloon puzzle were used as the milieu....

The study explored practices of the sampled higher education Philippine STEAM educators in assessing learners. Data sourced from the database of a state-funded research on Philippine STEAM education using a Classroom Observation Protocol, included 106 STEAM teachers from purposely selected institutions drawn from 14 regions. Systematic data analysi...

The study explored practices of the sampled higher education Philippine STEAM educators in assessing learners. Data sourced from the database of a state-funded research on Philippine STEAM education using a Classroom Observation Protocol, included 106 STEAM teachers from purposely selected institutions drawn from 14 regions. Systematic data analysi...

This paper discusses the results and conclusions of a Lesson Study conducted by a group of graduate students with the prime objective of utilizing lesson study in developing mathematics teachers' discourse on teaching content in mathematics. The post-lesson conference revealed how the lesson study supported the identification of the key points on t...

Aimed at creating the Philippine Workforce 4.0, ideally skilled to flourish in the Fourth Revolution era (FIRe), we gear our efforts to revolutionize the country’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agri/Fisheries, Mathematics) Education. The country’s firm stand on improving the human capital, and its science, technology and innovation (Phil...

Fundamental to STEAM education is quality assessment in that it promotes student learning and confirms students’ conceptual understanding, learning progress, and achievement throughout the teaching-learning discourse. It is a dynamic and cyclical process wherein teachers learn about their students, as they also learn with their students, that may p...

Science, Technology, Engineering, Agri/Fisheries, Mathematics (STEAM) Education dominates the factors contributory to national growth and development. This study developed the Philippine STEAM Education (PSE) Model to visualize the Philippine Higher STEAM Education and to check how far are we from the global standards. Grounded on theories (Commiss...

This study tries to evaluate teaching and learning process of STEM students while discussing Chain Rule using Composition of Functions suitable for K to 12 Basic Education in the Philippines. The design of this study is assessment of a class discussion focusing on differentiation of functions using Chain Rule. The derivatives of composite functions...

Mathematics educators in the Philippines are tasked by the Department of Education to continue their pedagogical knowledge. This entails effort by mathematics teachers to develop and reflect on their progression in mathematics. This paper contributes to this by presenting a lesson study (LS) on teaching area of composite figures to sixteen Grade 7...

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received Mathematics educators in the Philippines are tasked by the Department of Education to continue their pedagogical knowledge. This entails effort by mathematics teachers to develop and reflect on their progression in mathematics. This paper contributes to this by presenting a lesson study (LS) on teachi...

This paper intends to discuss the benefits of doing lesson studies in order to improve teaching practice in Mathematics. Fifteen Grade 8 students from a private school in the National Capital Region, Philippines participated in the study. The group followed the cycle of planning the lesson, implementing, and discussing what transpired from teaching...

Integrated science and mathematics education provide meaningful learning to the students through different strategies such as the use of real-life activities in the classroom. This study focuses on how science experimentation can be integrated in mathematics through process integration approach. To determine how science integration in the teaching...

The aim of this study is to stimulate reflections and determine the effects of teaching mathematics by integrating its history through Lesson Study. Lesson Study was utilized as a process to delve into the possible outcomes of incorporating history of mathematics in teaching angle of elevation to 15 freshmen college students taking BS Air Transport...

A single case of student teaching program in a Fuzoku school in Japan was highlighted in the hope of elevating certain ruminations on how the essential features of Lesson Study are legitimized and nurtured in pre-service mathematics teacher education. Findings of this study attempt to elucidate how, via mechanisms or infrastructures within student...

Cite as: Alejo, K., Aragones, K., Celeste, G.R., Cruz, J., Mabini, A., Maglalang, R., Porol, A.K., and Elipane, L. (2017). Teaching Direct Variation with Integration to Physics: Expectation Versus Reality – A Lesson Study. Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference of Joint Societies for Mathematics Education: KSME, KSESM, Singapore NIE, Vol....

Research claims that GeoGebra is an effective tool for teaching mathematics. It helps students to learn through discovery. The objective of the paper is to identify the advantages and challenges of integrating GeoGebra in teaching and learning properties of ellipse through a lesson study. Applying the lesson study framework, the study found that gr...

The integration of concepts makes the learning process inter-disciplinary. Thus, it can be said that applying the concepts learned in one discipline can be utilized in the other disciplines of learning. This study focuses on how mathematics can be integrated in science. In order to determine how integration is made in the teaching of science lesson...

This paper is an elaboration of the foreseen challenges of implementing Lesson Study as a mathematics teacher professional initiative in Cotabato, a province in the Southern part of the Philippines called Mindanao. The analysis of data based on a phenomenological approach made use of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactics as an analytical tool...

This paper deems to make explicit several issues that surfaced during a seminar-workshop that introduced Lesson Study to teachers, administrators, university instructors, and pre-service teachers in Caluya, Antique-a remote island in the Visayas area of the Philippines. After the concept of Lesson Study was presented, demo-teaching and micro-teachi...

This study explored how integrating the essential elements of Lesson Study as a powerful intervention in the pre-service mathematics teacher education contributes to prospective teachers’ facility in realizing their theoretical knowledge in the actual practice of teaching. Whereas Lesson study is widely being performed in in- service mathematics te...

This study explores how Lesson Study intimates a forcible mechanism towards the achievement of competency standards for pre-service teacher education in the Philippines. Being a part of a larger phenomenological study, it seeks to explicate the affordances and constraints of replicating Lesson Study in the Philippine context. An observation of a Le...

A single case of student teaching program in a Fuzoku school in Japan was highlighted in the hope of elevating certain ruminations on how the essential features of Lesson Study are legitimized and nurtured in pre-service mathematics teacher education. Findings of this study attempt to elucidate how, via mechanisms or infrastructures within student...

This study explores how the elements of 'Lesson Study' are being utilized as a powerful intervention in order to facilitate the transition of prospective mathematics teachers from being students in methods courses into undergoing actual teaching practice in schools during the student teaching program. A single case of student teaching program in a...

As standards have served as a basis for educational reform brought about by the call of various educational stakeholders for a clearer definition of what students must be able to know and must be able to do, and also by the public‟s demand for accountability, bodies of research about considering the social dimension in the development and implement...

As a response to the call for a clear definition of what students must be able to know and must be able to do, and the public's demand for accountability, the 'standards' has served as a basis for educational reform. It is believed that setting more rigorous standards and promoting it to all students would eventually raise the achievement levels of...