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Peer reviewedBookman, Alan B.; Iwanicki, Edward F. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1983
Eighth- and ninth-grade students underwent several forms of preparation before taking a mathematics achievement test: (1) going over practice problems (of the nature covered by the test); (2) review sessions; and (3) lecture and discussion on the importance of the test. Test preparation significantly affected mathematics achievement test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Drills (Practice), Grade 8, Grade 9
Download full textWenglinsky, Harold – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 calls for improving test scores of minority students in third through eighth grades, making middle level schools a key venue for closing the racial gap in achievement. This study, by analyzing data on the 15,000 eighth graders who took the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Maryland School Performance, Product, and Service Development Office. – 1993
This document offers many of the insights and comments of Maryland elementary school teachers who scored the 1992 Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) tests. The MSPAP covers reading, writing, social studies, mathematics, and science and is administered to students in grades 3, 5, and 8. The document contains the teachers' most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Maryland School Performance, Product, and Service Development Office. – 1993
This document offers many of the insights and comments of Maryland elementary school teachers who scored the 1993 Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) tests. The MSPAP covers reading, writing, social studies, mathematics, and science and is administered to Maryland students in grades 3, 5, and 8. Comments and observations are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
