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Tyminski, Andrew M.; Land, Tonia J.; Drake, Cory – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
In this article the authors describe how they engaged pre-service teachers (PSTs) in a comparison activity of two Standards-based lessons. The article presents PSTs' perceptions of the affordances and constraints within each lesson, interpret these results and present implications for further research. Because "Standards"-based…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Materials, Preservice Teacher Education
Chavez, Oscar; Papick, Ira; Ross, Dan J.; Grouws, Douglas A. – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this paper was to describe the process of development of assessment instruments for the Comparing Options in Secondary Mathematics: Investigating Curriculum (COSMIC) project. The COSMIC project was a three-year longitudinal comparative study focusing on evaluating high school students' mathematics learning from two distinct…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Interrater Reliability, Scoring Rubrics
Tarr, James E.; Ross, Daniel J.; McNaught, Melissa D.; Chavez, Oscar; Grouws, Douglas A.; Reys, Robert E.; Sears, Ruthmae; Taylan, R. Didem – Online Submission, 2010
The Comparing Options in Secondary Mathematics: Investigating Curriculum (COSMIC) project is a longitudinal study of student learning from two types of mathematics curricula: integrated and subject-specific. Previous large-scale research studies such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that numerous variables are…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness