1. SIXTH-GRADE STUDENTS’ RETENTION OF EARLY ALGEBRA UNDERSTANDINGS AFTER AN ELEMENTARY GRADES INTERVENTION.
- Author
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Stephens, Ana, Stroud, Rena, Strachota, Susanne, Blanton, Maria, Stylianou, Despina, Knuth, Eric, Torres, Ranza Veltri, Gardiner, Angela Murphy, and Yewon Sung
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CLUSTER randomized controlled trials ,MATHEMATICS education ,ALGEBRA ,ELEMENTARY schools ,ACQUISITION of data - Abstract
This research focuses on the retention of students’ algebraic understandings one year following a Grades 3–5 early algebra intervention. Participants included 1455 Grade 6 students who had participated in a cluster randomized trial. Approximately half of these students received an early algebra intervention as part of their regular instruction in Grades 3–5, while the other half received only their regular mathematics instruction. Results show that, as was the case at the end of Grades 3, 4 and 5, treatment students outperformed control students at the end of Grade 6 on a measure of algebraic understanding. This was despite the fact that treatment students experienced a significant decline in performance and control students a significant increase in performance after the intervention. An item-by-item analysis performed within condition revealed the areas in which students in the two groups experienced a change in performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019