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What Are the Features of Coherent Assessment Programs?

What Are the Features of Coherent Assessment Programs?. Clarifying the problem, Proposing some solutions.

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What Are the Features of Coherent Assessment Programs?

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  1. What Are the Features of Coherent Assessment Programs? Clarifying the problem, Proposing some solutions CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  2. We live in the age of assessment. At no other time in the history of education in the United States, and for that matter in other countries, have so many people, resources, and time been devoted to measuring students’ knowledge and performance in mathematics. Assessment has come to be viewed by policy makers and others to be more a lever for reform than merely an indication of the effectiveness of reform. The loosely coupled assessment system pervades every classroom in every school in the nation, at least in grades 3–8 and high school. (Webb, 2007, p. 1821; emphasis added) CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  3. Key issues: But not for this meeting • Why a national assessment? • Who are the stakeholders and who do we wish to inform? • Conditions: When administered, under what conditions, and in what format? • Consequences of a national assessment — for funding, for curriculum choices, for instruction, for student learning • How closely is the assessment tied to a curriculum and which is the driving force? ° ° ° CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  4. What would it mean for an assessment program to be coherent? What are the criteria for a program to be coherent? Is it possible to have a coherent assessment program? If so, what has to be put in place? If not, what are the obstacles? How can we ensure that the program continues to be coherent? What standards should we have for the appropriate use of the assessment program? Key Issues: What we should address CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  5. My primary references • 5 chapters in the Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Lester, 2007) by — Jan de Lange (ch. 25) Joan Ferrini-Mundy & Robert Floden (ch. 29) Norman Webb (ch. 30) Dylan Wiliam (ch. 23) Linda Dager Wilson (ch. 24) • A monograph prepared by Webb in 1997 for CCSSO CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  6. (Some) features of a coherent program • Content specifications • Degree of alignment of the assessments with standards, curriculum, and instruction • Technical considerations: validity, reliability, equity • Standards for appropriate use. CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  7. With regard to content specifications • Need to identify criteria for specifying attributes of assessments that are aligned with the system components. CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

  8. Criteria for specifying the extent of alignment of assessments (Webb, 1997, 2007) • Categorical concurrence • Depth-of-knowledge consistency • Range-of-knowledge correspondence • Balance of representation • Structure-of-knowledge comparability ________________________________ • Dispositional consonance CBMS Forum on the Content and Assessment of School Mathematics

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