Effective teacher training for the improvement of mathematics education in the Bahamas

• Main Author: Storr, E. R.
• Published: Loughborough University 1983
• Subjects: 370; Mathematics education - Bahamas : Helical curriculum : Mixed.ability teaching : Discovery learning strategy : Mathematical ideas : Applications of mathematics : Maths item banking
• Online Access: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.331713

This research is primarily concerned with the on-going development of the secondary mathematics curriculum in The Bahamas. In order to determine whether pupils assimilated mathematical ideas into a schematic structure, and could retrieve and use them as final behaviours outlined in the syllabuses, data from two diagnostic tests administered to pupils of 13+ and 15+ years respectively, were analysed. For the former age range, 377 pupils completed an Objective Test containing 50 items and for the latter age range 241 pupils attempted a Choice-Type Test with the instruction to choose any 10 of the total of 14 questions [continued]…