A Call for Cases about Mathematics Assessment

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (7) ◽  
pp. 614

The NCTM's As essment Addenda Task Force is seeking interesting cases, or stories, about mathematics assessment to be included in an Assessment Addenda series currently in development. The written cases should focus on issues related to implementing the vision of the NCTM's Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (1995).

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 522

The NCTM's Assessment Addenda Task Force is seeking interesting cases, or stories, about mathematics assessment to be included in an Assessment Addenda series currently in development. The written cases should focus on issues related to implementing the vision of the NCTM's Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (1995).


1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 260

The NCTM's A sessment Addenda Task Force is seeking interesting cases, or stories, about mathematic a, ses mentto be included in an As essment Addenda series currently in development. TI1e written cases should focus on issues related to implementing the vision of the NCTM's Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (1995).


1998 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-325
Author(s):  
Donita Robinson

Several years ago I added portfolios to the group of assessment activities that I assign my students. Some of my early ideas came from Mathematics Assessment, an NCTM publication edited by Jean Kerr Stenmark (1991). In addition to giving ideas for assembling and grading portfolios, she reminds us that “one of the major goals in the Evaluation Standards is to help students value mathematics, a very hard goal to assess. With examples in portfolios collected over time and with documented reactions to assignments and problems, we can begin to see how close we are coming to this goal” (p. 36).


1998 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Enrique Galindo

Consider the midpoints of all the chords that can be drawn from a given point, say, A, on a circle (see fig. 1). Can anything special be found about these midpoints? Using dynamic geometry software, students can trace the locus of these midpoints by dragging the chord AB from point B. That is, they can use the computer mouse to select and hold point 8 as it is moved around the circle. The computer displays a dynamic chord with a fixed endpoint A and traces the path of the midpoints. The small blue dots shown in figure 2 represent the midpoints of the chords generated as point B is dragged around the circle. Figure 2 suggests that these midpoints lie on a circle. Is this observation true? How can we be sure? When presented with this task, a high school student answered, “It forms … it forms a circle! The midpoints … the midpoints when you move it around form a smaUer circle inside the big circle!” When the student was asked to justify his answer, he said, “I can see it before me, and it does form a circle. I have evidence for it.”


1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
Nancy C. Lavigne ◽  
Susanne P. Lajoie

Mathematics education at all levels of schooling is currently undergoing change. Recommendations for improving the teaching, learning, and assessment of mathematics have been translated into standards that furnish guidelines for implementing change in mathematics classrooms (NCTM 1989, 1991, 1995). These standards emphasize the importance of engaging students in performance activities that require solving complex and realistic mathematics problems, reasoning about content and solutions, communicating understanding, and making connections among mathematical concepts.


1998 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 504-508
Author(s):  
Vena M. Long ◽  
Christine Benson

The Assessment Standards for School Mathematics defines assessment as “the process of gathering evidence about a student's knowledge of, ability to use, and disposition toward mathematics and of making inferences from that evidence for a variety of purposes” (NCTM 1995, 3). Teachers’ responsibilities for assessment traditionally involved judging students’ performance throughout instruction and judging students’ knowledge and competence at crucial points during a term. Teachers gave tests and computed grades. These responsibilities have


1995 ◽  
Vol 88 (8) ◽  
pp. 694-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian R. Hirsch ◽  
Arthur F. Coxford ◽  
James T. Fey ◽  
Harold L. Schoen

Current policy reports addressing mathematics education in American schools, such as Everybody Counts (NRC 1989), Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989), Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (NCTM 1991), and Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1995), call for sweeping reform in curricular, instructional, and assessment practices. Implementing the proposed reforms poses new opportunities and challenges for school districts, mathematics departments, and classroom teachers.


1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Janet M. Sharp ◽  
Karen Bush Hoiberg

A comprehensive process design, which facilitates the analysis of all events that have an impact on students’ mathematical experiences, is outlined in the Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1995). This process of assessment is held to six standards: Mathematics, Learning, Equity, Openness, Inference, and Coherence. These Standards represent those ideas that are valued and by which mathematical assessment should be judged.


1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 496-498
Author(s):  
Gay S. Pitts

The following is a set of directions that you must follow to arrive at your destination: Go three miles east on 1-40 until you come to Exit 103. Turn left at the end of the exit ramp and proceed…. You will be given all the information needed to arrive at the correct destination. However, only the person who is assessing your performance will know the destination and the reason you need to arrive there.


1981 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Carpenter ◽  
Mary Kay Corbitt ◽  
Henry S. Kepner ◽  
Mary Montgomery Lindquist ◽  
Robert E. Reys

Decimals are receiving more as well as earlier emphasis in today's elementary school mathematics programs. The increased use of calculators and metric measurement coupled with a reexamination of the appropriateness of the scope and sequence of common fractions provide impetus for such a change. The results of the second mathematics assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) can help us make this change effectively. They give some indication of how 9-year-olds handled decimals prior to much formal instruction and insight into areas of difficulty for 13-year-olds who have received instruction.


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