Periodic assessment and scrutiny of the discipline's measurement practices, instruments, and research findings are necessary to provide clarity and direction by revealing what we know, how we know it, and where the knowledge gaps exist. Reflective reviews have produced ample appraisals of the theory, research, and methods employed in the conduct…

Fourteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Two of the reports concern studies funded by the National Science Foundation to provide an assessment of the status of science education; three deal with teaching methods, three with conditional reasoning, two with problem solving, two with intellectual…