A Longitudinal Large-Scale Survey Study on the Effects of a Remedial Mathematics Instruction Project on New-Immigrant Children's Mathematics Achievement and Growth

Pei-Jung Hsieh

《International Journal of Intelligent Technologies and Applied Statistics》 10卷4期 (2017/12) Pp. 275-287

https://doi.org/10.6148/IJITAS.2017.1004.05

摘要

The number of new-immigrant children attending Taiwanese elementary schools has grown annually. Nevertheless, relevant Remedial Mathematics Instruction Project for struggling students were not evaluated following their implementation. This study is a continuation assessment of a large-scale survey of new-immigrant children. Partial representative samples were extracted from preexisting samples. The aim of the study is to explore the growth rate for academic performance in mathematics and assess the efficacy of the remedial mathematics instruction. Stratified cluster sampling was used to extract samples closest to the population’s distribution. The sampling probability of each school was calculated by probabilities proportional to size for each stratum. A total of 886 sixth grade new-immigrant children from 43 schools were selected from Northern Taiwan. Many-Facet Rasch Measurement was used to estimate differences in mathematics ability between the two years. A jackknifing technique with 21 replicate weights was employed to correct sampling error variance. The results indicated that the mathematics performance growth rate between grades 4 ~ 6 was 0.958 logit and the growth in mathematics over the two year period was identical whether children participated in the program or not. Rethinking the educational policy about remedial instruction and curriculum plan might improve the mathematics performance and learning motivation.

關鍵字

Program evaluation ； Remedial instruction ； Academic achievement growth ； Mathematics literacy ； Longitudinal study