Research Advisory Committee Report: NCTM Standards Research Catalyst Conference
The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics initiated a new phase in mathematics education reform. The Standards document presents both a vision and a plan for change in mathematics instruction and assessment. The principles on which the Standards document is based establish a new research agenda (Commission on Standards for School Mathematics, 1989) that offers the potential not only to contribute to the growing base of scientific knowledge about mathematics teaching and learning, bur also to complement and inform the efforts of mathematics educators to reform current curricular, pedagogical, and assessment practices. It is both the hope and the expectation of the mathematics education community that major changes will occur in the teaching and learning of mathematics. At this juncture, we need some form of documentation of the anticipated change.