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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Malone, Amelia; Schumacher, Robin F.; Namkung, Jessica; Hamlett, Carol L.; Jordan, Nancy C.; Siegler, Robert S.; Gersten, Russell; Changas, Paul – Grantee Submission, 2015
The main purposes of this study were to test the effects of teaching at-risk 4th graders to provide explanations for their mathematics work and examine whether those effects occur by compensating for limitations in cognitive processes. We randomly assigned 212 children to 3 conditions: a control group and 2 variants of a multi-component fraction…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Mathematics Instruction
Levine, Roger; Huberman, Mette; Buckner, Kathryn – 2002
Cognitive interviews were conducted with 12 teachers and 66 of their students to learn how to improve National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) questionnaire items asking about instructional practices and teacher development experiences. Items were purposively selected from those used in the 1996 and 1998 NAEP student and teacher…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Yepes-Baraya, Mario – 1995
This paper describes the task analysis of performance-based science tasks that were designed for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, now postponed until 1996, and field tested in 1993. A brief description of the science performance tasks is followed by a description of the task analyses performed and a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests