| The Polished Stones: Mathematics Achievement Among Chinese and Japanese Elementary School Students |  | Studio: University of Michigan
Category: Video
This item is no longer available
Sales Rank: 550,705
Language: English (Unknown)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 35 Minutes
ASIN: B0073IBQ6Y
Publication Date: 1988
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| • | Not available on DVD | | • | Very rare Videotape | | • | Shows Mathematics achievement among Chinese and Japanese elementary school students. |
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Product Description
There are scattered observations about schools in Asia. Most of these reports reflect negatively on Asian attitudes toward childhood and educational practice. For example, how many of these statements ring familiar to you?
* Japanese children are under more stress and more likely to commit suicide than children in western schools.
* There is more emphasis on drill and less emphasis on creative problem solving in Chinese classrooms.
* Loaded with 40-50 students, Asian teachers rigidly maintain classroom decorum.
* Only the best Asian students receive advanced curricula.
* When Asian countries report test results, they have selected results from the top schools in their districts.
* Scholastic performance of young Chinese and Japanese children is due in part to outside tutoring.
In 1980 Harold Stevenson and his colleagues began data collection on the largest comparative study of elementary education in Asian and western culture. Their methods were selected with care. For example, a team of bilingual researchers from each culture constructed tests that reflected common topics in the textbooks of all three countries. Questions were not asked if the material did not appear in the curricula. The tests were judged to be linguistically clear, interesting, and free from cultural bias by all of the bilingual psychometricians. There was random sampling of students from major cities.
The results of this careful study have blown away several myths about mathematics preparation. The Polished Stones is a 33 minute videotape that summarizes some of this research. It is directed to the audiences who are interested in educational programming and has been shown to parent's groups, teachers, and school board administrators.
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