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Winchip, Emily; Stevenson, Howard; Milner, Alison – Educational Review, 2019
As the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) spreads, key questions that attempt to identify both the nature and the increasing scope and scale of this phenomenon become empirically significant. The concern of this article is to highlight some of the complexities of measuring one key element of the GERM: the privatisation of public education…
Descriptors: Privatization, Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Probability
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Tsubaki, Michiko; Ogawara, Wataru; Tanaka, Kenta – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
This study proposes and examines an analytical method with the aim of improving the quality of education and learning by situating the answers to full descriptive questions in probability and statistics to make variables of learners' comprehension of learned content as answer characteristics, based on actual student mistakes. First, we proposed…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Comprehension, Learning Strategies
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Green, David – School Science and Mathematics, 1983
A three-year research project in England investigated the probability concepts of students aged 11-16. A 26-item test was administered to 2,930 students. The development and test results of one item are presented to illustrate the difficulty of item construction and interpretation. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement
Australian Council for Educational Research, Hawthorn. – 1978
This item bank was compiled by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to help teachers at the secondary school level construct objective tests in mathematics. The multiple-choice items were written by teachers who attended ACER writing workshops. The questions are classified according to their subject content and the cognitive…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Algebra, Foreign Countries, Geometry
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1988
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports on the status and progress of educational achievement in the United States. Based on its surveys, "The Nation's Report Card" provides comprehensive information about what students in the United States can do in various subject areas. The framework for the 1990 mathematics…
Descriptors: Algebra, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Mathematics
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1972
To help classroom teachers in grades K-9 construct mathematics tests, fifteen general objectives, corresponding sub-objectives, sample test items, and answers are presented. In general, sub-objectives are arranged in increasing order of difficulty. The objectives were written to comprehensively cover three categories. The first, graphs, covers the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Guides