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Moyer, John C.; Robison, Victoria; Cai, Jinfa – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
This paper presents findings from a larger research project that provides insight into the attitudes of high-school students who were taught using different types of mathematics curricula when they were in middle school. A total of 44 12th-grade students from 10 high schools in the same urban school district were interviewed. Eighteen (41%) of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Research Projects
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Wang, Ning; Cai, Jinfa – Journal of Research in Education, 2018
This study identified some factors associated with teachers' knowledge and beliefs that are related to scoring mathematics constructed-response (CR) assessment tasks. Five groups of teachers (n = 274) who either had different teaching experiences or had different cultural beliefs about teaching and learning mathematics were selected to score 28…
Descriptors: Scoring, Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Experience
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Cai, Jinfa; Moyer, John C.; Wang, Ning – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1999
Surveyed parents of middle school students to assess types of in-home parental support for students' mathematics learning. Found that students with the most supportive parents demonstrated higher mathematics achievement and more positive mathematics attitudes than students with the least supportive parents. "Motivator,""Resource Provider," and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Parent Attitudes