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WWC Review of the Report "Mastery Learning and Student Teams: A Factorial Experiment in Urban General Mathematics Classes"
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study reviewed in this paper examined the effects of "mastery learning" and "student team learning" on the math achievement of high school students. The analysis included 588 ninth-grade students in 16 urban Philadelphia high schools. The study assessed the effectiveness of the different conditions after one year by…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mastery Learning, Outcome Measures, Experiments
Solving Arithmetic Word Problems: Role of Reading and Computational Skills.
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Muth, K. Denise – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
This study added extraneous information and increased syntactical complexity to determine the relative importance of computational and reading abilities in solving arithmetic word problems. Analyzing tests of 200 sixth graders indicated the combined abilities accounted for 54 percent of the variance in solution accuracy. (BS)
Descriptors: Computation, Difficulty Level, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Report: 1978 Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program. Bulletin No. 8169.
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
The 1978 Wisconsin assessment program, involving students in grades 4, 8, and 12, focused upon: (1) state-developed tests referenced to state objectives for computation and everyday money and measurement skills; (2) the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills: mathematics, reading, and language; (3) comparison of results of the 1976, 1977, and 1978…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Basic Skills, Computation