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Individual gain and engagement with mathematical understanding

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 7, 2014

My colleague Mercedes McGowen and I examined a measure of individual student gain by pre-service elementary teachers, remedy related to Richard Hake’s use of mean gain in the study of reform classes in undergraduate physics. The gain statistic assesses the amount individual students increase their test scores from initial-test to final-test, and as a proportion of […]