Reform in school mathematics and authentic assessment / Thomas A. Romberg, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romberg, Thomas A.

Series:

SUNY series, reform in mathematics education.

SUNY series, reform in mathematics education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching--United States--Evaluation.

Mathematics.

Mathematical ability--Testing.

Mathematical ability.

Physical Description:

270 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1995.

Summary:

Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in key roles while developing the theme that we cannot reform the way in which school mathematics is taught without radically reforming the ways the effects of that teaching are monitored. Among others, this volume addresses the issues of the specification of performance standards, the development of authentic tasks, the measure of status and growth or a combination, the development of psychometric models, and the development of scoring rubrics. The new models proposed in this book give teachers a wealth of non-traditional assessment strategies and concrete ways to obtain measures of both group and individual differences in growth. Thomas A. Romberg is Director of the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education and Sears Roebuck Foundation-Bascom Professor in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the editor of Mathematics Assessment and Evaluation: Imperatives for Mathematics Educators , also published by SUNY Press.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. Issues Related to the Development of an Authentic Assessment System for School Mathematics by Thomas A. Romberg and Linda D. Wilson

2. A Framework for Authentic Assessment in Mathematics by Susanne P. Lajoie

3. Sources of Assessment Information for Instructional Guidance in Mathematics by Edward A. Silver and Patricia Ann Kenney

4. Assessment: No Change without Problems by Jan de Lange

5. The Invalidity of Standardized Testing for Measuring Mathematics Achievement by Robert E. Stake

6. Assessment Nets: An Alternative Approach to Assessment in Mathematics Achievement by Mark Wilson

7. Connecting Visions of Authentic Assessment to the Realities of Educational Practice by M. Elizabeth Graue

Contributors

Subject Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

Author Index

K

U

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4384-1765-9

OCLC:

559778138