What Mathematics Do Students Know and How is that Knowledge C... - 9781681232003

What Mathematics Do Students Know and How is that Knowledge Changing? Evidence from the National Assessment of Educational ProgressAuthor(s): Peter Kloosterman, Doris Mohr, Crystal Walcott\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781681232003, 978-1681232003\nSynopsis\nThis volume is intended for researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and classroom teachers who want comprehensive information on what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 (the grades assessed by NAEP) can and cannot do in mathematics. After two introductory chapters on the design of NAEP, the volume contains a chapter on the challenges in analyzing NAEP data at the item level followed by five chapters that report 2005 through 2013 student performance on specific assessment items. These chapters are organized by content area and then by topic ([url] understanding of place value, knowledge of transformations, ability to use metric and [url].