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Building Assessment into Instruction. Monitoring your teaching Monitoring student progress Making instructional decisions Evaluating student achievement Evaluating programs. Writing to Learn. 1. How is assessment different than testing? 2. What are at least four purposes of assessment?
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Building Assessment into Instruction • Monitoring your teaching • Monitoring student progress • Making instructional decisions • Evaluating student achievement • Evaluating programs.
Writing to Learn • 1. How is assessment different than testing? • 2. What are at least four purposes of assessment? • 3. How can a learning task or problem be an assessment task? • 4. What is the difference between scoring and grading? • 5. Do you think that teaching to the test is a good method of raising scores on high-stakes tests? What do you think is the best way to raise scores??
What Should Be Assessed? • Concepts • Mathematical Processes • Dispositions • Procedures
Examples of Assessment Tasks • Does the graph y = x squared ever intersect the graph y = x squared = 2? What are some ways that you could test your idea?
Examples of Assessment Tasks • Tell me everything that you can about these two triangles 45 degrees 2 units 2 units
Rubrics • A rubric is a framework that can be designed or adapted by the teacher for a particular group of students or a particular mathematical task (Kulm, 1994). • http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html