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Arithmetic Word Problems Revisited: Cognitive Processes and Academic Performance in Secondary School
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Download full textde Blas, Gonzalo Duque; Gómez-Veiga, Isabel; García-Madruga, Juan A. – Education Sciences, 2021
Solving arithmetic word problems is a complex task that requires individuals to activate their working memory resources, as well as the correct performance of the underlying executive processes involved in order to inhibit semantic biases or superficial responses caused by the problem's statement. This paper describes a study carried out with 135…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Word Problems (Mathematics), Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Achievement
Direct linkWrabel, Stephani L.; Saultz, Andrew; Polikoff, Morgan S.; McEachin, Andrew; Duque, Matthew – Educational Policy, 2018
Executive leadership of the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) initiated a flexibility offering from No Child Left Behind. Our work explores specific design decisions made in these state-specific accountability systems as associated with state political environments, resources, and demographic characteristics. Our analysis, focused on 42 states…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Polikoff, Morgan S.; Korn, Shira; McFall, Russell – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
California is taking a bold new approach to the evaluation of school performance, the provision of data to parents and educators, and the use of accountability to improve student learning. Broadly speaking, the state is stepping away from the consequential accountability that was compelled under No Child Left Behind and toward a system that relies…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Institutional Evaluation, Accountability, School Effectiveness
Polikoff, Morgan S.; McEachin, Andrew J.; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Duque, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2014
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have recently received waivers to the school accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As the prospects for reauthorizing the Act in the near term are dim, these new accountability systems will be law for at least several years. Drawing on a four-part framework from the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Duque, Diana L. – 1995
The Capacity Building Special Alternatives Program, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its second year of operation, functioned at seven schools in a community school district of Manhattan (New York). The project served 195 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) whose native languages were Albanian,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Chacon-Duque, Fabio J. – 1985
The factors that determine course completion and achievement in college distance education were investigated using a sample of 25 courses offered through the Independent Learning Program at the Pennsylvania State University. The main objective was to develop a multivariate model to explain and predict outcomes of distance education. Additional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Programs, Distance Education
