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Title
Stroup, W., L. Carmona, et al. (2005). IMPROVING ON EXPECTATIONS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM USING NETWORK-SUPPORTED FUNCTION-BASED ALGEBRA
Alternate Title
Stroup, W., Carmona, L., & Davis, S. (2006) IMPROVING ON EXPECTATIONS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM USING NETWORK-SUPPORTED FUNCTION-BASED ALGEBRA.
Year
2005
Publisher
University of Texas - Austin
Author
Stroup, W., Carmona, L. & Davis, S.M.
Language
English
Institution
University of Texas - Austin
Department
Mathematics Education
City
Austin, TX
Abstract
This paper reports preliminary analyses comparing results on the state-administered 8th Grade and 9th Grade algebra Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) for a treatment and a control group. The treatment group consisted of 127 students from algebra classes at a highly diverse school in central Texas taught by two relatively new teachers using a network-supported function-based algebra (NFBA) approach as integrated with the ongoing use of an existing school-wide algebra curriculum. The control group was comprised of 99 students taught by two more-senior teachers in the same school using only the school-wide algebra curriculum. The intervention consisted of implementing 20-25 class days worth of NFBA materials over an eleven-week period in the spring of 2005. Because the students were not randomly assigned to the classes, the study is a quasi-experimental design. Using a two sample paired t-Test for means, statistically significant results for the treatment group (p-value one tail = 0.000335 > alpha = 0.05) were obtained. We can conclude the NFBA intervention was effective in improving outcomes related to learning the algebra objectives assessed on the 9th Grade TAKS.
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TI-Navigator, Algebra, Generative Questioning
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