RADIO MATHEMATICS PROJECT; NICARAGUA, 1976-1977

Contains detailed discussions of the second-grade instructional program; formal evaluation of the 1976 first-grade instructional program; weekly tests; an assessment of teacher attitudes; an observation study in first-grade classrooms; radio education and student repetition; patterns of student promotion and wastage for first-graders; educational decisions and cost analysis for the radio mathematics project; and Nicaraguan standardization of the Stanford Mental Arithmetic Test (SMAT). Many figures and detailed data tables are included. The appendix contains symbolic and oral forms of arithmetic exercises; scripts for SMAT in English and Spanish; manual for Nicaraguan MAT; and performance of first and fifth grade Nicaraguan and U.S. students on SMAT by concept. Key word(s) index provided.