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Farfan, Guillermo; Schoen, Robert C. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Many studies conducted in the last decades report that very few elementary-grades students understand the meaning of = in mathematics, and that upper-elementary students do not understand it any better than the lower-elementary students do. Using data from thousands of Florida elementary students, we show that students in Florida perform ten to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Symbols (Mathematics), Instructional Program Divisions
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Robert Schoen; Chris Rhoads; Amanda Tazaz; Walter Secada; Alexandra Stone – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Billions of dollars are spent every year on teacher professional development (PD) programs (Fermanich, 2002; Odden et al., 2002; TNTP, 2015; U.S. Department of Education, 2014). The few rigorous evaluations of PD programs that have been done usually report a null effect on student achievement, leading many scholars to conclude that teacher PD…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Students