The Initial Teacher Education Research Project Report on performance in ITERP Maths test - Lynn Bowie, December 2015

The Initial Teacher Education Research Project (ITERP) studied the BEd curricula for mathematics and language and literacy for teachers intending to teach in the Intermediate Phase at 5 universities (Taylor, 2014; Deacon, 2016). In addition, tests in maths and English were used to assess the extent to which samples of 4th-year students and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) from these universities had mastered the content of these subjects, at the level the primary school curriculum. This document provides a summary of the performance of the 4th year students who wrote the pilot test in 2014 and the NQTs who wrote the revised test in 2015.