Educators in a UDL Math and Design Thinking professional development attributed shifts in their beliefs and practices to empathy, both as a value and as a practice of empathy interviews¶
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q2 i? Across survey and focus-group data sources, educators attributed shifts in their beliefs and practices about disability and mathematics instruction to empathy as a value and a practice. → Rachel Lambert 2026
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Rachel Lambert 2026¶
Rachel Lambert, Kara Imm. (2026). Teachers rehumanizing mathematics for students with disabilities; the role of empathy. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-025-09753-4
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Qualitative design-research teaching experiment: a 6-week online course for 45 California educators, analyzed via pre/post Qualtrics surveys (44 pre, 33 post) and two Zoom focus groups about nine months later. The article reports that educators "attributed shifts in their beliefs and practices to empathy."
"Across data sources, the educa -tors in our study attributed shifts in their beliefs and practices to empathy, both as a value and a practice of empathy interviews."
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Related Claims¶
- Educators' understanding of UDL shifted from a static framework to a dynamic way of thinking emphasizing moment-to-moment responsiveness to students' access needs — related
- Classroom teachers spontaneously adopted empathy interviews outside the design thinking cycle, using them with students and families for relationship building — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Post-course survey respondents reported the most growth on rethinking ideas about disability, with 27 of 33 noting definite growth and 17 describing a shift away from deficit thinking — related
- Most Equatio-using teachers were not using the tool to support UDL-based practices, with only about 22% reporting use of a given UDL affordance on average — related
- Empathy interviews are among the most commonly discussed continuous improvement practices for advancing equity — related
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Educators in a UDL Math and Design Thinking professional development attributed shifts in their beliefs and practices to empathy, both as a value and as a practice of empathy interviews |
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Educators in a UDL Math and Design Thinking professional development attributed shifts in their beliefs and practices to empathy, both as a value and as a practice of empathy interviews |
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