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de Villiers, Celéste; Hopkins, Sarah – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
Counting strategies initially used by young children to perform simple addition are often replaced by more efficient counting strategies, decomposition strategies and rule-based strategies until most answers are encoded in memory and can be directly retrieved. Practice is thought to be the key to developing fluent retrieval of addition facts. This…
Descriptors: Addition, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Computation
Perkins, Kyle; El-Ezaby, Yehia – 1984
Item responses by adult Egyptian native speakers of Arabic on the ALIGU test battery were analyzed statistically to determine which items deviated significantly from the expected frequency of correct responses, and which item distractors were chosen most frequently. Thirty-two of 100 grammar responses showed significant incorrect responses, and on…
Descriptors: Adults, Arabic, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Perlman, Carole L. – 1985
Due to a concern regarding the validity of Chicago public elementary schools standardized test scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, a test audit was conducted. The audit was limited to 40 schools. Two schools were selected from each of the 20 administrative districts, with each school testing one seventh- and one eighth-grade class. These…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cheating, Educational Testing, Elementary Education