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Smith, Lyle R. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1989
The effects of a mathematics lesson's complexity were studied, using 128 female and 122 male first-year algebra students in Georgia high schools. Achievement scores were slightly, but not significantly, higher with low complexity lessons, and students preferred the low-complexity lessons. Implications for teaching secondary mathematics are…
Descriptors: Algebra, Content Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Difficulty Level
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Penny, Jim; Johnson, Robert L.; Gordon, Belita – Journal of Experimental Education, 2000
Used an analytic rubric to score 120 writing samples from Georgia's 11th grade writing assessment. Raters augmented scores by adding a "+" or "-" to the score. Results indicate that this method of augmentation tends to improve most indices of interrater reliability, although the percentage of exact and adjacent agreement…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Interrater Reliability, Scoring Rubrics