Authors: Thomas Romberg
ISBN-13: 9780807744819, ISBN-10: 0807744816
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: New Edition
Romberg (education, University of Wisconsin-Madison) documents the shift from traditional ways of judging student performance to reform notions of mathematical literacy in this collection describing experiences in using new assessment procedures in conjunction with Mathematics in Context, an innovative set of curriculum material for teaching mathematics in grades 5-8. Each chapter tells the story of one or more teachers who discovered the need and developed methods for changing the way they judge student performance. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pt. I | Overview and background of reform in assessment practices | 3 |
1 | Monitoring student progress | 5 |
Pt. II | Teaching and assessment under a reform curriculum | 23 |
2 | Instructional innovation and changing assessments | 25 |
3 | Expanding classroom practices | 45 |
4 | Practices in transition : a case study of classroom assessment | 60 |
Pt. III | The design of new assessment tasks | 81 |
5 | Developing assessment problems on percentage | 83 |
6 | Analysis of an end-of-unit test | 100 |
7 | The design of open-open assessment tasks | 122 |
8 | Investigations as thought-revealing assessment problems | 137 |
Pt. IV | Embedding assessment in instructional practice | 153 |
9 | Making instructional decisions : assessment to inform the teacher | 155 |
10 | Enriching assessment opportunities through classroom discourse | 169 |
11 | Collaborative partnership : staff development that works | 188 |
12 | Retracing a path to assessing for understanding | 200 |
Pt. V | Generalizing the approach | 221 |
13 | Classroom assessment as a basis for teacher change | 223 |