Connected Mathematics and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (Doctoral dissertation).
Schneider, C. L. (2000). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 3004373).
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examining12,162Students, grades6-8
Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) Intervention Report - Primary Mathematics
Review Details
Reviewed: January 2017
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Does not meet WWC standards because it uses a quasi-experimental design in which the analytic intervention and comparison groups do not satisfy the baseline equivalence requirement.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Please see the WWC summary of evidence for Connected Mathematics Project (CMP).
Findings
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Study sample characteristics were not reported.Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) Intervention Report - Middle School Math
Review Details
Reviewed: January 2010
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Meets WWC standards with reservations
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Please see the WWC summary of evidence for Connected Mathematics Project (CMP).
Findings
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Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) Pass Rate |
Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) vs. Business as usual |
1996-1999 |
Grades 6 and 7;
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N/A |
No |
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Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
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Study Details
Setting
The participating schools were located in rural, suburban, and urban, as well as both low and high socioeconomic, areas of Texas. The schools varied in the English language learner status of the student populations that they served. Many of the schools had predominantly minority student populations.
Study sample
The study included three cohorts from 23 CMP schools and 25 matched comparison schools overall. However, because baseline equivalence was established only for cohorts 1 and 2 through 1998, the WWC excluded cohort 3 from this review.1 Cohort 1 included more than 3,000 CMP students and 2,600 comparison students. Cohort 2 included more than 3,400 CMP students and 2,900 comparison students.
Intervention Group
Schools in the treatment group used CMP, starting with grade 6 in 1996–97, adding grade 7 in 1997–98, and adding grade 8 in 1998–99. Cohorts in the school-level analysis represented all students in grades using CMP, regardless of whether the students were enrolled every year of implementation. By 1998, students in cohort 1 had received the intervention for up to two years (grades 6 and 7), and students in cohort 2 had received the intervention for one year (grade 6). There was substantial variation in the extent to which the curriculum was used at each grade level and each year across these schools.
Comparison Group
Schools in the comparison group did not use CMP. The author did not report the mathematics curricula used by comparison schools. The 25 comparison schools were matched to treatment schools using a regression analysis of variables that predicted 1996 Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) passing rates.
Outcome descriptions
The primary outcome measure included in this review was the school-level passing rate on the mathematics portion of the TAAS.
An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for improvement index.
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The sample on which the analysis was conducted.
The group to which the intervention group is compared, which may include a different intervention, business as usual, or no services.
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The number of students included in the analysis.
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The mean score of students in the comparison group.
The WWC considers a finding to be statistically significant if the likelihood that the finding is due to chance alone, rather than a real difference, is less than five percent.
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Study findings for this report.
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Tier 1 Strong indicates strong evidence of effectiveness,
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Tier 3 Promising indicates promising evidence of effectiveness,
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