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Birenbaum, Menucha; Nasser, Fadia; Tatsuoka, Curtis – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
A diagnostic methodology for large-scale assessment was employed to compare performance on a national test in mathematics of representative samples of Jewish and Arab 8th graders in Israel in order to shed light on a previously identified large achievement gap between these 2 populations. The results revealed significant differences between the 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, Measurement