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Understanding the format of standardized testing questions on estimation : does it matter? / Vanessa Crowley

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Identifier	Thesis 1969
Author	Crowley, Vanessa T., 1971-
Title	Understanding the format of standardized testing questions on estimation : does it matter? / Vanessa Crowley
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2008
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	As the global marketplace has made the world a more competitive place, governments are eager to ensure their population will be able to measure up to the new challenges. Borrowing the standard metrics and performance reviews from corporate practices, federal, state, and local governments alike have implemented laws to require regular progress assessments, aiming to be the right incentive or penalty needed to drive achievement. In the U.S., standardized tests were introduced at various state and local levels, until a federal standard was proposed under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This new law required assessments and measurable statistics to show current and future progress as well as set goals and penalties when insufficient progress was made. This focus on results and improvements, with penalties too, required schools to review teaching habits, lesson plans, and overall performance for opportunities to build on successful strategies and discontinue moving in directions without results. This focus has also led to a shift in academic analysis of teaching protocols and what exactly works best in delivering the improved results, with various works in the literature extolling the results delivered by one way of teaching compared to another. The legislative focus, real life experience, and the possible opportunities for improvement suggested by the literature inspired this study's analysis of how specific teaching of test question formats could improve student understanding and test results for estimation strategies, an element of mathematics requirements for4th grade students in the state of CT. Lesson plans were developed with targeted teaching strategies focused on how the test question was formatted. Resulting pretest and posttest assessments of statistical significance and improvements act to validate the hypothesis that focused teaching of test formatting and specific strategies would return better test results, and thus greater student understanding of the material.
Subject	Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Educational tests and measurements -- United States
Department	Department of Mathematical Sciences
Advisor	Halloran, Philip P
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	276838172
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