Research Catalog

Title

The state of mathematics achievement : NAEP's 1990 assessment of the nation and the trial assessment of the states / Ina V.S. Mullis, John A. Dossey, Eugene H. Owen, Gary W. Phillips ; prepared by Educational Testing Service under contract with the National Center for Education Statistics, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.

Author

Mullis, Ina V. S.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Center for Education Statistics : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Dossey, John A.
• Owen, Eugene
• Phillips, Gary W.
• Educational Testing Service, sponsoring body.
• National Center for Education Statistics, sponsoring body.

Description

532 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Series Statement

• The nation's report card
• Report ; no. 21-ST-04

Uniform Title

• Nation's report card
• Report (National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)) ; no. 21-ST-04.

Subject

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)
• Mathematics > Study and teaching (Elementary) > United States > Statistics
• Mathematics > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States > Statistics
• Mathematical ability > Testing > Statistics
• Mathematics achievement
• Mathematics education
• National competency tests
• National surveys
• Algebra
• Arithmetic
• Calculators
• Course content
• Estimation (Mathematics)
• Females
• Functions (Mathematics)
• Geometry
• Government schools
• Males
• Mathematics teaching
• Measurement
• Nongovernment schools
• North Americans
• Pacific Islanders
• Parent background
• Primary school students
• Probability
• Racial differences
• Rural areas
• Secondary school students
• Gender differences
• Student attitudes
• Teaching methods
• Urban areas
• Caucasians
• Comparative analysis
• Data analysis
• Quantitative tests
• Statistics
• Year 4
• Year 8
• Year 12
• Mathematical ability > Testing
• Mathematics > Study and teaching (Elementary)
• Mathematics > Study and teaching (Secondary)
• United States

Genre/Form

• Government publications
• Statistics
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.

Note

• Shipping list no.: 91-463-P.
• "June 1991."
• "NCES 91-1259"--P. [4] of cover.
• 065-000-00452-6
• Item 461-D-5

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Overall mathematics proficiency for the nation -- Overall mathematics proficiency results for population subgroups -- Mathematics proficiency by content area for the nation and subpopulations -- Course--taking patterns in the mathematics content areas for the nation and population subgroups -- Student performance on constructed--response questions -- Instructional approaches -- Calculators and computers Instructional time and emphases -- Students' perceptions of mathematics -- Characteristics of mathematics teachers -- Overall and content area mathematics proficiency at grade 8 in the States -- Mathematics proficiency results for demographic subpopulations at grade 8 in the States -- Mathematics instructional materials group work, projects and resources at grade 8 in the States -- Calculators and computers at grade 8 in the States -- Instructional emphasis on mathematics and on specific mathematics content areas at grade 8 in the States -- Students' perceptions of mathematics at grade 8 in the States -- Characteristics of mathematics teachers at grade 8 in the States -- Proficiency results by academic emphasis in the home at grade 8 in the States.

ISBN

• 0160331447
• 9780160331442

LCCN

91601052

OCLC

• ocm26722386
• 26722386
• SCSB-1013653

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library