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Ken Ardon – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2024
This paper reviews overall student performance as well as the performance of student subgroups on the assessment system developed in response to the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 (MERA), the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). Comparing students in Massachusetts to students in the rest of the United States or against…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Test Reliability, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
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Rosebery, Ann S.; Ogonowski, Mark; DiSchino, Mary; Warren, Beth – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This article explores heterogeneity as fundamental to learning. Inspired by Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia, a design team consisting of an experienced classroom teacher and 2 researchers investigated how a class of 3rd and 4th graders came to understand disciplinary points of view on heat, heat transfer, and the particulate nature of matter.…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Chemistry, Heat, Grade 4