What Works Clearinghouse Middle School Math Curricula Topic Report
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education
Publication Date: 2004
Full text available online at: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/topic.aspx?tid=03
Abstract (written by WestEd)
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002 by the Institute of Educational Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education to help education decision-makers differentiate high-quality research from weaker research and promotional claims. Evidence of "what works" needs to be demonstrated through rigorous, scientific studies in which a statistically significant causal relationship between an educational intervention and improved student performance is found. The first set of reports focuses on middle school mathematics curricula. The following two sets will be on elementary and high school mathematics.
For middle school mathematics curricula, the WWC identified 10 studies of 5 middle school math interventions (Cognitive Tutor, Connected Mathematics Project, The Expert Mathematician, I CAN Learn Mathematics Curriculum, and Saxon Math) that met WWC standards of evidence. Of the 4 that were randomized controlled trials, only 2 showed evidence of having significantly increased achievement — Cognitive Tutor and I CAN Learn Mathematics Curriculum.
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