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Ashish Gurung; Morgan P. Lee; Sami Baral; Adam C. Sales; Kirk P. Vanacore; Andrew A. McReynolds; Hilary Kreisberg; Cristina Heffernan; Aaron Haim; Neil T. Heffernan – Grantee Submission, 2023
Solving mathematical problems is cognitively complex, involving strategy formulation, solution development, and the application of learned concepts. However, gaps in students' knowledge or weakly grasped concepts can lead to errors. Teachers play a crucial role in predicting and addressing these difficulties, which directly influence learning…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Mathematical Applications, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Arteaga, Pedro; Díaz-Levicoy, Danilo; Batanero, Carmen – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2021
The aim of this research was to describe the errors and reading levels that 6th and 7th grade Chilean primary school children reach when working with line graphs. To achieve this objective, we gave a questionnaire, previously validated by experts with two open-ended tasks, to a sample of 745 students from different Chilean cities. In the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Eunsoo Cho; Gary A. Troia – Grantee Submission, 2022
Although educators frequently use assessment to identify who needs supplemental instruction and if that instruction is working, there is a lack of research investigating assessment that informs what instruction students need. The purpose of the current study was to determine if a brief (approximately 20 min) task that reflects a common middle…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Test Validity, Writing (Composition)
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Bossé, Michael J.; Bayaga, Anass; Fountain, Catherine; Lynch-Davis, Kathleen; Preston, Ron; Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
This study applies the Mathematics Acquisition Framework (MAF) (Bossé, Ringler, Bayaga, Fountain, & Young, 2018) to investigate fifth- through seventh-grade students' comprehension of fractions and decimals and examines how students build understanding of mathematical principles and concepts regarding fractions and decimals. Based on case…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Alibali, Martha W.; Stephens, Ana C.; Brown, Alayna N.; Kao, Yvonne S.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigated middle school students' conceptual understanding of algebraic equations. 257 sixth- and seventh-grade students solved algebraic equations and generated story problems to correspond with given equations. Aspects of the equations' structures, including number of operations and position of the unknown, influenced students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Algebra, Equations (Mathematics), Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Bowers, Lisa; McCarthy, Jillian H.; Schwarz, Ilsa; Dostal, Hannah; Wolbers, Kimberly – Volta Review, 2014
Children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) often struggle with spelling, which can have a negative effect on their written expression. Recent research has shown that linguistic analyses of spelling errors can be used to identify areas of need and guide remediation for spelling success. However, this research has not been conducted with…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Middle School Students, Deafness
Malcolm, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The ability and to make good estimates is essential, as is the ability to assess the reasonableness of estimates. These abilities are becoming increasingly important as digital technologies transform the ways in which people work. To estimate is to provide an approximation to a problem that is mathematical in nature, and the ability to estimate is…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Mathematics Skills, Computation
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Kerr, Deirdre; Chung, Gregory K. W. K. – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2012
The assessment cycle of "evidence-centered design" (ECD) provides a framework for treating an educational video game or simulation as an assessment. One of the main steps in the assessment cycle of ECD is the identification of the key features of student performance. While this process is relatively simple for multiple choice tests, when…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Design, Academic Achievement, Educational Games