Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (SUNY series, Reform in Mathematics Education)

ISBN 10: 0791421627 / ISBN 13: 9780791421628

Published by State University of New York Press, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (SUNY series, Reform in Mathematics Education)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791421627
• ISBN 13: 9780791421628
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.