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Vondrová, Nada – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
The adverse influence of the presence of an irrelevant number and language inconsistency in a word problem is well known. Our study focused on the combination of these two variables and on the position of the irrelevant number in the word problem for Grade 6 pupils. The study has a mixed design. Item Response Theory was used to make equally able…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics), Difficulty Level
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Jung, Philip-Yoongoo; Shin, Jeong-Ah – English Teaching, 2021
This study investigated if the difficulty of instructional classroom English in primary teacher-guidebooks of English is adequately manipulated by learner-proficiency. Corpora of classroom English were compiled from 20 guidebooks from five publishers, approved following the 2015 Revised National Curriculum of Korea. Extracted materials from grades…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary Education, Guides
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Kan, Adnan; Bulut, Okan – Education Research and Perspectives, 2015
This study investigates whether word problems and mathematically expressed items can be used interchangeably regardless of their linguistic complexities. A sample of sixth grade students was given two forms of a mathematics assessment. The first form included mathematics items with mathematical terms, expressions, and equations whereas the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Secondary School Mathematics
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Kan, Adnan; Bulut, Okan – International Journal of Testing, 2014
This study investigated whether the linguistic complexity of items leads to gender differential item functioning (DIF) on mathematics assessments. Two forms of a mathematics test were developed. The first form consisted of algebra items based on mathematical expressions, terms, and equations. In the second form, the same items were written as word…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Test Bias, Difficulty Level, Test Items
Logan-Terry, Aubrey Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates and problematizes emergent bilingual students' achievement gaps in an existing corpus of middle-school science assessment data. I first characterize achievement gaps across national data, state data, and the corpus of approximately 27,000 students as an analytic backdrop. I then sample a subset of the 6th grade…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Achievement Gap, Middle School Students, Grade 6