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Download full textNisbet, Steven – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper reports on teachers' views of the effects of compulsory numeracy testing in Years 3, 5, and 7 in Queensland schools. Teachers were surveyed on (i) the validity and worth of the tests, (ii) the impact the tests had on their teaching of mathematics, and (iii) how they were using the results of the tests. Although the results reveal a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Numeracy, Testing Programs, Mathematics Instruction
Brown, Dave F. – 1992
Educators' perceptions of the effects of state mandated testing on instructional practices and curricular decisions were studied. An ethnographic interview study was conducted with 30 fifth- and sixth-grade teachers and 12 principals from Illinois, New York, and Tennessee. Forty-one of the 42 respondents agreed to have their interviews audiotaped.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers
