AI/AN students have comparatively low access to well-prepared teachers: 27 percent were taught mathematics by teachers with a mathematics degree, significantly lower than any comparison group¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2020: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The percentage of AI/AN students taught mathematics by teachers with a mathematics degree (27 percent) was significantly lower than that of White, African-American, and Latino comparison groups. → Nelson-Barber 2015 q2 i? AI/AN students had among the lowest exposure to teachers knowledgeable about standards, participating in standards-based professional development, and practicing standards-based instruction. → Nelson-Barber 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Nelson-Barber 2015¶

Nelson-Barber, S., & Trumbull, E. (2015). The Common Core Initiative, Education Outcomes, and American Indian/Alaska Native Students: Observations and Recommendations [a report from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) at WestEd]. San Francisco: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED570362

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The report cites a recent study (Akiba, Chiu, & Zhuang, 2008) finding "the percentage of AI/AN students taught mathematics by teachers with a degree in mathematics (27 percent) was significantly lower than that of any comparison group." No effect size is printed.

"the percentage of AI/AN students taught mathematics by teachers with a degree in mathematics (27 percent) was significantly lower than that of any comparison group (White, African-American, Latino) (Akiba, Chiu, & Zhuang, 2008)."

Nelson-Barber 2015 (2)¶

Nelson-Barber, S., & Trumbull, E. (2015). The Common Core Initiative, Education Outcomes, and American Indian/Alaska Native Students: Observations and Recommendations [a report from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) at WestEd]. San Francisco: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED570362

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An eighth-grade NAEP mathematics data study with teacher and student surveys (Akiba, Chiu, & Zhuang, 2008) found AI/AN students "had among the lowest exposure" to standards-knowledgeable, standards-trained, and standards-practicing teachers.

"AI/AN students had among the lowest exposure to teachers who reported that they were knowledgeable about standards, who participated in standards-based professional development, and who practiced standards-based instruction"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

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