Standards-based mathematics curricula and middle-grades students' performance on standardized achievement tests

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 184-212

  Post, Thomas R ^a   Harwell, Michael R ^a   Davis, Jon D ^b   Maeda, Yukiko ^c   Cutler, Arnie ^a   Andersen, Edwin ^a   Kahan, Jeremy A ^d   Norman, Ke Wu ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ida Crown Jewish Academy   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Assessment; Curriculum; Middle grades, 5 8; Multivariate techniques; Reform in mathematics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249100649     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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