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Anh-Duc Hoang – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
We conducted an experiment to determine the impact of short-term pressure on 1,228 Grade 8 students' outcomes when performing simple math exercises. We required all students to complete 100 simple math questions for 90 seconds. We analysed students' results and then divided them into three groups: (i) a control group who did nothing; (ii) a group…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Middle School Students
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Richardson, Sandra – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2009
This article describes experiences from a professional development project designed to prepare in-service eighth-grade mathematics teachers to develop, explore, and advance technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) in the teaching and learning of Algebra I. This article describes the process of the participating teachers' mathematical…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Mathematics Teachers, Algebra, Professional Development
Graf, Edith Aurora – Educational Testing Service, 2009
This report makes recommendations for the development of middle-school assessment in mathematics, based on a synthesis of scientific findings in cognitive psychology and mathematics education. The focus is on background research, rather than test specifications or example tasks. Readers interested in early development and pilot efforts associated…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Middle Schools, Cognitive Psychology, Grade 6
Davis, Donna; Carman, Elaine – College Board, 2010
[Slides] presented at the annual conference of the National Council of Supervisors of Math.
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Goal Orientation, Expectation, Task Analysis