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National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
Results from the 2013 NAEP assessments show fourth-and eighth-graders making progress in mathematics and reading. Nationally representative samples of more than 376,000 fourth-graders and 341,000 eighth-graders were assessed in either mathematics or reading in 2013. Results are reported for public and private school students in the nation, and for…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Educational Indicators, Educational Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
Green, Nora D. – Online Submission, 2009
The math achievement of third and fourth grade special education students has been identified as an area of concern within a public school located in a small rural town located on the east coast. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate whether or not the Touch Math strategy increased the math ability of third and fourth grade…
Descriptors: Action Research, Special Education, Mathematics Achievement, Public Schools
Tall, David; Gray, Eddie; Bin Ali, Maselan; Crowley, Lillie; DeMarois, Phil; McGowen, Mercedes; Pitta, Demetra; Pinto, Marcia; Thomas, Michael; Yusof, Yudariah – 2000
Symbols occupy a pivotal position between processes to be carried out and concepts to be thought about. They allow us both to do mathematical problems and to think about mathematical relationships. In this presentation, the discontinuities that occur in the learning path taken by different students, leading to a divergence between conceptual and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping
Hayward, Becky Jon – 1980
The goals of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program operated by the Public Schools of the District of Columbia were to provide disadvantaged children with supplemental instructional services to improve their performance in reading and mathematics and to support their affective and psychomotor development. This volume of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Hampel, Paul J. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1984
Presents: (1) a computer program which will change a fraction into a decimal; (2) a program in which students supply missing lines to create the output given; and (3) suggestions for adding computer awareness to classrooms, including use of used punch cards and old computer-generated printouts. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Decimal Fractions, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Hungerman, Ann D. – 1981
This final study in a series reports the investigation in detail of the sex-related differences in the mathematics achievement of sixth grade students. Students were stratified in four intelligence levels with 91.5, 101.5, and 111.5 IQ as cutpoints. Twenty computation scores and eight contemporary mathematics scores were derived from the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Females
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Gaynor, Alan K. – 1980
This study seeks to acquire understandings about the dynamics of curriculum change in one urban elementary school and to depict these understandings in a form which facilitates clarifying their behavioral implications. The focus of the study was the changing level of the use of the Developing Mathematical Processes (DNP) program. It was introduced…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
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De Corte, Erik; Verschaffel, Lieven – 1980
Design and results of an investigation attempting to analyze and improve children's solution processes in elementary addition and subtraction problems are described. As background for the study, a conceptual model was developed based on previous research. One dimension of the model relates to the characteristics of the tasks (numerical versus word…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
Kaye Educational Evaluators, Inc., Bronx, NY. – 1979
Major characteristics of seven Title I and Impact Aid components implemented in New York City School District 29 in 1978-79 are described in this evaluation. The components are: (1) an elementary grade Reading Diagnostic Program; (2) a project to raise reading achievement in the intermediate schools; (3) an Early Childhood Center for students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
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Hungerman, Ann D. – 1981
ANOVA and Profile analysis were employed to compare the computational skills of high and low ability sixth graders during a decade of efforts to individualize instruction. Comparison of lowest ability subgroups demonstrated no differences with statistical significance in their computational skills. There were statistically significant differences…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
DeVault, Marjorie L. – 1977
This document consists of data tables showing the amount of compensatory instruction received by pupils in first and third grade classes. The instruction offered included reading and/or mathematics as well as other academic subjects. Instruction received is differentiated by subject area and by location (inside or outside the classroom) within…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Sanders, James R.; Sonnad, Subhash R. – 1982
This volume includes the tests, questionnaires, letters, manuals, findings, and analyses associated with the field evaluation of "ThinkAbout," a series of 60 15-minute programs organized in 13 clusters and designed to strengthen the reasoning skills of fifth and sixth graders, and to review and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Field Tests
Haggart, Sue A.; And Others – 1978
This report on Compensatory Education (CE) documents the kinds, amounts, and costs of resources used in providing reading and mathematics instruction. A resource-cost model translated the measures of resource exposure into estimates of standard dollar costs for each student's instructional program. The overall strategy for estimating costs…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Dockweiler, Clarence J. – 1980
The research described is the result of an assessment in grades 4, 5, and 6 of a metric measurement pilot program for grades K-6 in Wheeling, Illinois. The development and administration of metric inventory and attitudinal instruments for teachers and students is described. The report presents four conclusions: (1) there was a significant growth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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Johnson, Janet L.; Donley, Jan – 1997
The North Carolina Partnership for Accelerated Schools includes nine schools in five counties in North Carolina. Representatives from the state Department of Education, the local school agencies, and the teacher educators from North Carolina State University and East Carolina University have worked together to implement the project, which works to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
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