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Article Summary
Testing the Problem-Solving Skills of Students in an NCTM-oriented Curriculum PDF
Spring 2003, Volume 13, Number 1, Pages 5-14
Abstract:
An interesting question concerns how well NCTM-oriented students do on standardized
mathematics tests. Another important question that has received less attention
is: Are standardized tests truly measuring the skills that NCTM-oriented
students have? Would other tests reveal skills that differentiate NCTM-oriented
students from traditional students? Moreover, what are these skills? This
paper contributes to the answers to these questions, and finds that students
in one NCTM-oriented curriculum displayed such qualities as engagement, eagerness,
communication, flexibility, and curiosity to a much higher degree than traditional
students did. The implication given is that not only should we use standardized
tests, but we should revise them and/or supplement them to measure the qualities
that are not currently being measured.
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