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Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings for First and Second Graders
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Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings for First and Second Graders

Published: Oct 30, 2010
Publisher: Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Human Services Education Literacy and Numeracy

Associated Project

Evaluation of Mathematics Curricula

Time frame: 2005–2013

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

Authors

Roberto Agodini

Barbara Harris

Melissa Thomas

Robert Murphy

Lawrence Gallagher

This report, the second from a large-scale study for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences of four early math programs, shows that the curriculum used by the study schools mattered. The study examined (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Investigations), (2) Math Expressions, (3) Saxon Math (Saxon), and (4) Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics (SFAW).

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