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Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1961
The 1961 meeting of the Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with changes in education and measurement since Sputnik. The following papers were presented: (1) "Who's Testing Whom and for What?" by Daniel D. Feder; (2) "Recent Development and Problems in the Teaching of English" by Alfred H. Grommon; (3) "The New Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Change, English Instruction, Language Instruction
Carpenter, Thomas P.; And Others – 1979
This study was presented at the 1979 meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), San Francisco. It investigated the relationship between the structure of simple addition and subtraction problems and the types of processes children use to solve them prior to receiving formal arithmetic instruction. Specific strategies which young…
Descriptors: Addition, Conference Reports, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Schoen, Harold L. – 1979
This paper was presented at the 1979 meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco. It describes specific examples of calculator-aided mathematics learning activities for children in grades 2-6. These examples illustrate a variety of topics and types of learning which can be enhanced by a range of capabilities of…
Descriptors: Calculators, Conference Reports, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Wheatley, Grayson H. – 1979
This paper, presented at the 1979 meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco, discusses the effects of calculator availability on the elementary school mathematics curriculum. The rationale for a shift from a computationally based curriculum to a conceptually oriented curriculum utilizing the calculator as an…
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
Moses, Barbara – 1979
This study investigated the effects of a series of mathematics lessons which were designed to encourage a spatial mode of thinking. Using fifth-grade students from four intact classrooms, a pretest and posttest battery composed of spatial tests, reasoning tests, and a problem-solving test, were administered to the experimental and two control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conference Reports, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Silver, Edward A. – 1979
This study, presented at the 1979 meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco, examines the relationship between a student's mathematical problem-solving ability and the nature of the student's recall of information from previously-solved problems. Seventy-seven seventh-grade students completed tasks measuring…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
