J Masel, P T Humphrey, B Blackburn, J A Levine
Evidence-Based Medicine as a Tool for Undergraduate Probability and Statistics Education
CBE life sciences education
investigators often rely proportion correct responses assessment describing impact early mathematics interventions child outcomes propose shift focus relative sophistication problemsolving strategies offer methodological guidance researchers interested working strategies leverage data randomized teaching experiment kindergarten sample whose details outlined clements et al 2020 first describe problemsolving strategy data including strategies coded ways amenable analysis second explore kinds ordinal statistical models best fit nature arithmetic strategies describe model implies problemsolving behavior interpret model parameters third discuss effect treatment operationalized instruction aligned arithmetic learning trajectory lt show arithmetic strategy development best described sequential stepwise process children receive lt instruction use sophisticated strategies postassessment relative peers teachtotarget skill condition introduce latent strategy sophistication analogous metric traditional rasch factor scores demonstrate moderate correlation r 058 work suggests strategy sophistication carries information unique complimentary traditional correctnessbased rasch scores motivating expanded use intervention studies