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Klecker, Beverly M.; Klecker, Richard L. – Online Submission, 2015
This study examined equity through the differences average scale scores on the NAEP 2015 12th-grade mathematics test by parents' socioeconomic status (SES) and students' use of graphing calculators in the classroom and while taking the NAEP 2015 assessment. Data were national public composite mathematics 12-grade 2015 NAEP assessment scores. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Graphing Calculators, National Competency Tests, Scores
Tan, Hazel – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
In this paper, the relationships between students' beliefs about knowing and learning mathematics, and how they engage with calculators, are investigated. An online survey was conducted for 964 Singaporean and 176 Victorian senior secondary students. Students' "connected knowing-deep approach" conception of mathematics was found to be…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculators, Teaching Methods, Beliefs
Reznichenko, Nataliya – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Since technology has taken its place in almost all classrooms in schools and colleges across the country, there is a need to know how technology influences the mathematics that is taught and how students learn. In this study, the graphing calculator (GC) (namely the Texas Instruments TI-83) was implemented as a tool to enhance learning of function…
Descriptors: Algebra, Graphing Calculators, Community Colleges, Remedial Mathematics
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Petrocelli, John V. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
Undergraduate students (N = 47), enrolled in 2 separate psychology research methods classes, evaluated a power analysis lab demonstration and homework assignment. Students attended 1 of 2 lectures that included a basic introduction to power analysis and sample size analysis. One lecture included a demonstration of how to use a computer-based power…
Descriptors: Homework, Undergraduate Students, Research Methodology, Calculators
Gratz, Zandra S.; And Others – 1993
A study was conducted at a large, state-supported college in the Northeast to establish a mechanism by which a popular software package, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), could be used in psychology program statistics courses in such a way that no prior computer expertise would be needed on the part of the faculty or the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Calculators, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy
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Idris, Noraini – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2006
Most of us want our students to feel that mathematics is an enjoyable and rewarding study for them … but do we succeed? Some of our students are successful whereas others are anxious and fearful. The performance of Malaysian students in mathematics has been generally been not good. It has been realized that poor mathematics performance of students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Experimental Groups, Control Groups