Standards-based mathematics reforms and mathematics achievement of American Indian/Alaska Native eighth graders

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-34

  Akiba, Motoko ^a   Chiu, Ya Fang ^b   Zhuang, Yue Lin ^a   Mueller, Heather E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

American Indian Alaska Native students; National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); Standards based reform; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549124897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v16n20.2008     Document Type: Article

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