Many research studies have sought to explain why NCTM's vision for mathematics
classrooms has not had greater impact on everyday instruction, with teacher beliefs often …

Results of the long-term trend assessment (LTT) for middle-grades students show positive
advancement. Page 1 Vol. 14, No. 6, February 2009 ● MATHEMATICS TEACHING IN THE …

This dissertation is an examination of how students learn mathematics when interacting with
peers and using a computer-programming environment. Students' use of technology tools in …

After describing the content and scoring of NAEP mathematics assessments, this chapter
focuses on performance on individual NAEP items as a means for documenting the …

Calculators are commonly used in mathematics and science instruction. In fact, over 20
years ago, two studies commissioned by the College Board (Kupin & Whittington, 1988; …

Grades 4 and 8 students had shown slow but steady improvement in scores on the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment from 1990 until …

We applied techniques from systemic functional linguistics to examine how a student and a
tutor construed meaning related to linear functions during a 1-1 tutoring session. The student …

Debates of calculators in mathematics lessons sometimes have happened in both countries
that students rarely use calculators in math lessons including Republic of Korea and …

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the United States government
program for tracking the performance of elementary, middle, and high school students. This …

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to document sixth-grade mathematics mastery as
measured by the seventh-grade Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) over a …