Lessons Learned - What International Assessments Tell Us About Math Achievement

Informationen zum Autor " Tom Loveless is director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the annual Brown Center Reports on American Education." Klappentext For more than four decades, international assessments conducted by the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) have measured how well students are learning mathematics in different countries. Beyond the horse racethe rankings that compare nationswhat have we learned from the wealth of data collected in these assessments? How do US math curriculums compare to those used overseas? Is the effect of technology in the classroom uniform across nations? How do popular math reforms fare abroad? Those are some of the critical issues tackled in this important book. Zusammenfassung Standards for education achievement are under scrutiny throughout the industrial world. In this technological age! student performance in mathematics is seen as being particularly important.

Product details

• Authors: Tom (EDT) Loveless
• Assisted by: Tom Loveless (Editor), Loveless Tom (Editor)
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780815753346
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-5334-6
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics; Education, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, EDUCATION / Comparative, Teaching of a specific subject, Education: examinations & assessment, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Mathematics