Does Progress Monitoring Increase Student Achievement? Curriculum-Based Measurement in Mathematics

Enhancing Instructional Programming and Student Achievement with Curriculum-Based Measurement

Chapter 1: International Student Achievement in Mathematics

Exhibit 1.1 shows the distribution of student achievement for the participants in TIMSS 2007, including the average (mean) scale score with its 95 percent confidence interval and the ranges in performance for the middle half of the students (25th to 75th percentiles) as well as the extremes (5th and 95th percentiles). The first page of Exhibit 1.1 presents the distribution for the achievement f...

Influence of curriculum reform: An analysis of student mathematics achievement in Mainland China

This study investigated curriculum influences on student mathematics achievement by following two groups of students from fifth to sixth grade that were taught either the reformed curriculum or the conventional curriculum. Analyses with three-level modeling were conducted to examine learning outcomes of the students who were assessed three times over a period of 18 months. Achievement was measu...

The Mobile Mathematics Curriculum-based Measurement Application for Elementary students

The aim of this study was to develop the application software, mathematics curriculum based measurement (iCBM), for children on the mobile tablet device. The iCBM was developed by various mobile technologies. Two features of iCBM were stated in this paper including the online measurement design and the automatically digital scoring rules. To exam students’ perceptions about the use of iCBM syst...

Does tutor subject-matter expertise influence student achievement in the problem-based learning curriculum at UNITRA Medical School?

OBJECTIVE To establish whether or not tutor subject-matter expertise influences student achievement in content-based examinations in the problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum at the University of Transkei (UNITRA) Medical School. DESIGN A retrospective study of MB ChB III student achievement in end-of-block modified essay questions (MEQ) examinations in microbiology, pathology and pharmacol...