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This chapter introduces a web-based assessment environment, the EnCoMPASS Environment, that was purposefully designed to scaffold activities consistent with a group of mathematics teacher educators’ practices as well as research-based instructional practices. The chapter details the design of the tool and then presents preliminary findings from our analysis of 21 practicing teachers’ collective mathematical activity mediated by the tool. Findings indicate that the software environment supported teachers’ participation in common practices for examining student work as well as more generative practices such as providing evidence-based feedback. The study has implications for a way in which to conceive of the design of technologies to support generative professional development at a distance.
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Matranga, A., Silverman, J., Klein, V., Shumar, W. (2018). Designing Interactive Technology to Scaffold Generative Pedagogical Practice. In: Silverman, J., Hoyos, V. (eds) Distance Learning, E-Learning and Blended Learning in Mathematics Education. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90790-1_9
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