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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
This paper argues for a renewed focus on statistical reasoning in the beginning school years, with opportunities for children to engage in data modelling. Results are reported from the first year of a 3-year longitudinal study in which three classes of first-grade children (6-year-olds) and their teachers engaged in data modelling activities. The…
Descriptors: Statistics, Science Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Data Analysis
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Cummings, Kelli D.; Dewey, Elizabeth N.; Latimer, Rachel J.; Good, Rolland H., III – School Psychology Review, 2011
The purpose of this article is to describe the relationship of initial skill and rate of progress on a measure of the alphabetic principle, Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF), to first-grade reading outcomes as measured by Oral Reading Fluency (ORF). In addition, we describe a scoring approach to NWF where the predominant decoding strategy (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Beginning Reading, Scoring, Grade 1
Seethaler, Pamela M. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability, validity, and predictive utility of 3 measures for screening kindergarten students for risk for math difficulty (MD). The screening measures assessed number sense and computational fluency, constructs central to typical early mathematical development. Conceptual and operational outcomes…
Descriptors: Prediction, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Predictive Validity