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Mesture Kayhan Altay; Çigdem Alkas Ulusoy; Ayse Özer; Aysun Umay – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study aimed to examine kindergarten children's performance and strategies when answering different types of numerosity estimation questions. To this end, interviews were conducted with 44 children (aged 61-80 months) in an online setting, during which they were asked nine estimation questions of three types. These questions (open-ended,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Numbers, Knowledge Level
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Hunt, Jessica – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
In this article Jessica Hunt explores the use of clinical interviews to gain a deep understanding of students' knowledge. Examples of clinical interviews are provided and advice for planning, giving and interpreting the results of interviews is also included.
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Yang, Der-Ching; Lin, Yung-Chi – Educational Research, 2015
Background: Number sense is a key topic in mathematics education, and the identification of children's misconceptions about number is, therefore, important. Information about students' serious misconceptions can be quite significant for teachers, allowing them to change their teaching plans to help children overcome these misconceptions. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numbers, Misconceptions, Diagnostic Tests
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
Now entering into its 20th year of data collection, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, (TIMSS) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades. TIMSS 2015 is the most recent in the TIMSS series, which began with the first assessments in 1995 and has continued every four years--1999,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Grade 4
Fraser, Graham, Ed. – 1978
As one in a series of test item collections developed by the Assessment and Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of Studies, items of value from previous tests are made available to teachers for the construction of pretests or posttests, reference tests for inter-class comparisons and general assignments. The collection was reviewed for content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mathematics, Multiple Choice Tests
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1980
The Kindergarten Assessment Project test to provide diagnostic instructional information to the teacher on individual student cognitive skills in Communication Arts and Number Understanding is presented. The criterion-referenced test cuts across the domains of social-affective functioning, perceptual-psychomotor functioning, and cognitive-language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Communication Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Kindergarten
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
The proportion of school children and other students in the United States who are required to take examinations other than those set by the teacher for his own classes is exceedingly small. Except in New York State, where a considerable number of children in the elementary and secondary schools are accustomed to taking examinations set by the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Secondary Schools, Cooperation, Numbers
Spearman, Carolyn; Gaddis, Ruth – 1980
The trainer's manual offers a sampling of workshop materials to assist the regular classroom teacher in the process of screening, identification, referral, and assessment of handicapped students. Following an introduction are sections with information, sample handouts, forms, and checklists on the following topics (sample subtopics in…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Cognitive Style, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education