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Meadows, Sara; Herrick, David; Witt, Marcus – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
The aim of the National Numeracy Strategy is to raise standards in numeracy. Strong evidence for its success has, however, been lacking: most of the available data come from performance on National Test assessments administered in schools or from Ofsted reports, and is vulnerable to suggestions of bias. An opportunistic analysis of data from a…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Numeracy, Arithmetic, National Competency Tests
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Kurumeh, M. S. C.; Achor, E. E. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
This study determined the effect of Cuisenaire Rods' approach on some Nigeria primary pupils' achievement in decimal fractions. Three hypotheses guided the study. A total of 200 Primary six pupils (that is, 6th grade) from randomly selected schools in Makurdi metropolis of Benue State of Nigeria served as the sample for the study. A Mathematics…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 6