Standards-Based Mathematics Assessment in Middle School: Rethinking Classroom Practice (Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807744816 ISBN 13: 9780807744819

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume takes an in-depth look at the problems and practices involved in conducting formative assessments in middle-school mathematics classrooms. In these chapters, researchers and teachers identify the challenges teachers faced as they attempted to implement new assessment procedures―moving from more traditional methods to an emphasis on the quality of student work. This authoritative book:

• Documents the shift from traditional ways of judging student performance (testing what students know) to reform notions of mathematical literacy (documenting students’ growth in understanding specific content domains).
• Discusses four key steps in the change process that helped teachers to accomplish the necessary shift in assessment practices. Includes two chapters written by teachers that describe their personal experiences with implementing these new practices in the classroom.
• Outlines a professional development program that evolved as a consequence of the work done by the teachers and students discussed in this book.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas A. Romberg is Bascom Professor of Education and Professor Emeritus in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807744816
• ISBN 13: 9780807744819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Romberg Thomas