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Jaylin Lowe; Charlotte Z. Mann; Jiaying Wang; Adam Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – Grantee Submission, 2024
Recent methods have sought to improve precision in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) by utilizing data from large observational datasets for covariate adjustment. For example, consider an RCT aimed at evaluating a new algebra curriculum, in which a few dozen schools are randomly assigned to treatment (new curriculum) or control (standard…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Ozmen, Zeynep Medine; Guven, Bulent; Kurak, Yasin – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Previous research focused on graphical skills of the students, which remains a gap that exists, and there has not been comprehensive research on students' graphical literacy abilities. The present study aims to picture graphical literacy levels of the 8th grade students concerning the "reading," "interpreting,"…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Knowledge Level, Graphs
Schweig, Jonathan; McEachin, Andrew; Kuhfeld, Megan; Mariano, Louis T.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay – RAND Corporation, 2021
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. In spring 2020, as schools went to remote learning formats or closed completely, end-of-year assessment programs ground to a halt. As a result, schools began the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Characteristics
Jonathan Schweig; Andrew McEachin; Megan Kuhfeld; Louis T. Mariano; Melissa Kay Diliberti – Grantee Submission, 2021
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. In spring 2020, as schools went to remote learning formats or closed completely, end-of-year assessment programs ground to a halt. As a result, schools began the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Characteristics
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Blagdanic, Casandra; Chinnappan, Mohan – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2013
Numeracy in schools is becoming an increasingly important part of mathematics learning and teaching. This is because educators want students to engage with mathematical concepts more deeply, use mathematics to make sense of their environment and make decisions that are based on the analysis of mathematical information. In order to be numerate,…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Statistics, Data Interpretation, Numeracy
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Maone, Teresa – Science Scope, 2004
Students at the middle school level are expected to use appropriate tools and techniques, including mathematics and graphing, to analyze and interpret data and communicate experimental findings. Measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode--see sidebar for definitions) are often used as descriptive statistics when students conduct…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Data Analysis, Science Education, Graphs