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Narratives of Success: Enabling All Students to Excel in the Global World
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Andrade-Molina, Melissa – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This article aims to unfold the narratives of success in the Modern, cosmopolitan society within transnational discourses. The narratives of success entail utopian desires of enabling "all" students to potentially become profitable for the economy and for themselves -- accountable through mathematics proficiency. This reveals…
Descriptors: Success, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Beyond Shanghai and PISA: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Competencies of Chinese Students in Mathematics. Research in Mathematics Education
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Xu, Binyan, Ed.; Zhu, Yan, Ed.; Lu, Xiaoli, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book seeks to illustrate the research on mathematics competencies and disposition in China according to the conceptual development and empirical investigation perspective. Mathematics education in China has a distinguishing feature a focus of attention to mathematical competency. Paradoxically, there has not been an explicit, refined, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education, Evaluation Methods
Relations between Semiotic Resources in Mathematics Tasks: A Source of Students' Difficulties
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Dyrvold, Anneli – Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
Tackling mathematics tasks often involves reading and interpreting different semiotic resources such as natural language (words), mathematical notation, and images. This study aims to enhance knowledge of how meaning relations, in the form of "cohesive ties" between and within different semiotic resources, are related to how difficult it…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Mathematics Instruction, Difficulty Level, Mathematics Tests
Policy and the Standards Debate: Mapping Changes in Assessment in Mathematics
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Lerman, Stephen; Adler, Jill – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
The influences on governments for policy changes in schools range across many agencies, including the political party in power. When policies change, the sources of these influences are not always clear. The project whose work is presented in this special issue examines what these changes look like in terms of the differences in assessment tasks…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Curriculum
Investigating Changes in High-Stakes Mathematics Examinations: A Discursive Approach
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Morgan, Candia; Sfard, Anna – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
This article focuses on the theoretical-methodological question of how to identify reform-induced changes in school mathematics. The issue arose in our project The Evolution of the Discourse of School Mathematics (EDSM), in which we studied transformations in high-stakes examinations taken by students in England at the end of compulsory schooling.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Mathematics Tests, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries
What a Cognitivist Can Take from Discursive Research
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Brown, Margaret – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
To an unreconstructed cognitivist with experience of developing General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations and national tests in mathematics, the three papers which provide the core of this special issue (Morgan & Sfard; Morgan, Morgan & Tang) provided a refreshing opportunity to consider examination items from a…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries