Assessing Children's Mathematical Knowledge: Social Class, Sex and Problem-Solving - Rilegato

Cooper, Barry; Dunne, Mairead

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ISBN 10: 0335203175 ISBN 13: 9780335203178

Casa editrice: Open Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

In many countries, the lives of teachers and children are increasingly dominated by programmes of national testing of mathematics and other subjects. In England, the majority of the items in such tests have set mathematical tasks in every day situations such as 'shopping'. Assessing Children's Mathematical Knowledge draws on the analysis of National Curriculum test data from more than 600 children of 10-11 and 13-14 years of age, as well as in-depth interviews with 250 of these as they attempt to solve test problems, in order to explore the nature of the difficulties children experience with 'realistic' items. The book shows, by comparing test and interview data, that many children, as a consequence of their confusion over the requirements of 'realistic' test items, fail in tests to demonstrate mathematical knowledge and understanding that they actually possess. The book also explores whether this problem of invalid measurement is equally spread across children from different social backgrounds, and across the sexes.
The book will be of interest to academics and teachers studying for advanced degrees in mathematics education, sociology of education and educational assessment.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Barry Cooper is a Professor of Education, and Director of Research, at the University of Durham, School of Education.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Open Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0335203175
• ISBN 13: 9780335203178
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 215
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile