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"Saxon Math", published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is a core curriculum for students in grades K-12. This report includes studies that investigate the potential impact of "Saxon Math" for students in grades 6-8. A distinguishing feature of the curriculum is its use of an incremental approach for instruction and assessment.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Middle School Students, Junior High School Students, Grade 6
Peer reviewedLinton, Thomas H.; Kester, Donald – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2003
Compared scores for Texas eighth graders on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to study the achievement gap in mathematics in 1996 and 2000. Results show the likelihood of a ceiling effect impacting students' TAAS scores that created the illusion the achievement gap had narrowed.…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Tests
Peer reviewedKlein, Stephen P.; Hamilton, Laura S.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Stecher, Brian M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
Compared results on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills to Texas (TAAS) score changes on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Texas fourth graders did improve significantly more on the NAEP mathematics test than their counterparts nationally, but this gain was smaller than their TAAS gains, and a similar gain was not seen…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Performance-based Assessment of At-risk Students in Mathematics: The Effects of Context and Setting.
Telese, James A.; Kulm, Gerald – 1995
A team of university and public school mathematics educators designed performance-based mathematics assessment tasks designed to align with the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills for 93 students who had been identified as at-risk in mathematics. Scenarios were developed based on four contexts: (1) familiar activity; (2) social issue; (3)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Context Effect, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment
