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Center for Innovation in Assessment (NJ1), 2013
The First Grade Pre-Screening is designed to be used at the start of the first grade school year so that teachers can obtain information about their incoming students. This information is intended to give teachers insight about what math and reading skills a student may or may not have at the beginning of the year. The information can aid teachers…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Screening Tests, Alphabets
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Gilmore, Camilla K.; Bryant, Peter – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Understanding conceptual relationships is an important aspect of learning arithmetic. Most studies of arithmetic, however, do not distinguish between children's understanding of a concept and their ability to identify situations in which it might be relevant. We compared 8- to 9-year-old children's use of a computational shortcut based on the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Computation
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Matthews, Julia – Mathematics in School, 1980
This is a preliminary report on research into computational errors made by six- and seven-year-olds. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Addition, Comprehension, Computation, Educational Assessment