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Nan Wu; Jian Wang – Educational Studies, 2025
Concept-based teaching is presumably more effective than popular procedure-based instruction in helping students develop conceptual understanding, an important conceptual base for mathematics teaching reforms in many countries. This study examined the extent to which this assumption is true by controlling the influences of student socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment, Mathematics Instruction
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Biza, Irene; Zachariades, Theodossios – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2010
This study concerns 182 first year mathematics undergraduates' perspectives on the tangent line of function graph in the light of a previous study on Year 12 pupils' perspectives. The aim was the investigation of tangency images that settle after undergraduates' distancing from the notion for a few months and after their participation in…
Descriptors: Geometry, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Tests
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Achor, Emmanuel E.; Imoko, Benjamin I.; Uloko, Emmanuel S. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2009
This study determined the effectiveness of ethnomathematics teaching approach, ETA on students' achievement and retention in Locus. The study was carried out in education zone B of Benue State of Nigeria using a sample size of 253 Senior Secondary 2 (SS 2) students. It was a non equivalent quasi-experimental study which was guided by two research…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Shirvani, Hosin – American Secondary Education, 2009
The participants in this study were high school Hispanic students from four geometry classes. All students were taught by the same teacher, and the duration of the experiment was for one term or six weeks. Two classes were placed in the control group and another two classes in the experimental group. In the control group, students took weekly…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1987
In 1980-82, the Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) was conducted in 20 countries, including Japan. This study was conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). This paper constitutes a summary of the research relating to the level of mathematics achievement of Japanese students. The…
Descriptors: Algebra, Comparative Testing, Foreign Countries, Geometry
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1990
Results from North Carolina's End-of-Course Testing Program in 1989-90 are presented. Participation, student characteristics, and achievement are summarized, largely in table form, for the following subject areas: (1) Algebra I, (2) Geometry, (3) Algebra II, (4) Biology, (5) Chemistry, (6) Physics, (7) U.S. History, and (8) English I. Background…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Biology, Chemistry