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Teaching and Math
Methodology
Assessment Resources
Authentic
Assessment Toolbox, by Jon Mueller of North Central College in Illinois, is
a how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, portfolios and
standards for measuring and improving student learning. The Toolbox also
contains a glossary of terms associated with authentic assessment and examples.
Assessment in Math and
Science: What's the Point? is a video workshop for K-12 teachers with eight
90-minute video programs, workshop guide, and Web site. Examine current
assessment issues and strategies in real K-12 math and science classrooms
through videos interspersed with lively discussions of practicing teachers and
content experts. Graduate credit is available. There is no fee to
view the videos, which are brought to you by Learner.org.
Balanced Assessment in
Mathematics was originally developed at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
The library, now available at the Concord Consortium,
contains over 300 assessment tasks for grades K-12, which you can use in your
classroom for free. Tasks are categorized as primary (K-2), elementary
(3-5), transition (5-7), middle school (6-8), high school basic, high school,
high school advanced, and technology based (7-12). You will also find
reports on how to assess mathematical understanding and skills effectively,
scoring assessment tasks, and a spreadsheet to assist you with the scoring
system for the tasks.
Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated
Classroom (2006) by Rick Wormeli has portions available online from Stenhouse Publishing.
Formative and Summative Classroom
Assessments from Park University includes advantages and disadvantages of
both types of assessments. Classroom techniques for formative assessments,
including journal writing are provided. There are guidelines for enhancing
summative assessments and writing test items with expanded tips for several
forms: true/false, matching, multiple choice, portfolios, alternative and
authentic assessments, essays, and short answer. Grading strategies,
including development and use of rubrics, add to the value of this resource.
Forms of Assessment
by Dr. James Atherton (UK) contains
current forms of assessment, including the
description, indications (when to use), contra-indications (when not to use),
and special precautions. Methods include case studies, collaborative/group
projects, direct observation, essays, exams (unseen and seen/open-book),
multiple-choice tests, oral questioning after observation, performance projects,
portfolios, practical projects, presentations, problem sheets, self-assessment,
simulations (forms of games), viva voce (oral) exams.
How to Write
Tests by Dr. Robert Runté, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge,
Canada, covers both test taking and good test design. Learn to write
better multiple choice questions, true/false questions, matching tests,
completion and short answer questions, and essay tests. Reporting test
results and item analysis is also included.
Instructional Tools Related to Quality Test Construction from Dr. Bruce Frey
at Special Connections, University of Kansas. Tools relate to Bloom's Taxonomy,
writing a table of specifications, item analysis, multiple choice, matching, and
testwiseness and guessing.
Introduction
to Performance Tasks from Area Education Agency 267 in Iowa contains a step
by step guide on how to write performance tasks/performance assessment tasks,
when to use them and why they should be used. From this link, you can also
access a number of general teaching strategies.
National Center on Student
Progress Monitoring has a library of "downloadable articles, PowerPoint
presentations, FAQs, and additional resources about student progress monitoring,
Curriculum-Based Measurement, applying decision making to IEPs and other
researched based topics," which will help educators to implement student
progress monitoring at the classroom, building, local or state level.
Rubric
Bank and Assessment Resources from Chicago Public Schools contains an
introduction to performance assessment scoring rubrics, how to create a rubric
from scratch, performance assessment tasks, assessment resources, and an
extensive bank of rubrics for core subject areas with tips for their selection
and use. Mathematics rubrics have been gathered for K-12 from various
states and publications.
Rubrics for Web
Lessons from San Diego State University.
Free and Low Cost Tools
Chalksite, a total web package for extending the classroom, includes the
templates for creating webpages, and online access to grades, assignments, class
messages and discussions in a secure environment. Initial set-up is free for
teachers who wish to subscribe five students; expanded accounts have a small
monthly fee.
 Engrade
is a totally free online gradebook suite, which includes the gradebook, an
online calendar for homework and events, attendance book, student reports, and
online messaging for parents and students.
EasyTestMaker.com is a free test generator for multiple-choice,
fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false
questions. Insert instructions, create multiple sections and
alternative versions, and generate the answer keys.
ProProfs.com has
a free online quiz service--Quiz-School.
Create
and customize your quiz. You can share it with others. You can post the quiz on any
webpage, including at your classroom website, or link to it from any
webpage. You can create printable versions, too, add
discussion on the quiz, set criteria for passing, and provide
feedback on what the correct answer should have been. Assign
keywords to your quiz for easy retrieval. The site also has a
section for creating flashcards for free.
rCampus.com
has Rubric Studio, a free comprehensive rubric design and assessment
tool to build simple or complex rubrics with multiple sections and a
flexible number of rows and columns. There is also a Rubric Gallery
with a collection of rubrics made my members, organized by subject
and type of rubric.
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Become Knowledgeable about Assessment Terminology
Each year you will be faced with interpreting test results
particularly for NCLB mandated state assessments, and explaining
those results to students and parents. It is a good idea to
have a working knowledge of key terms. Visit
Assessment Terminology: A Glossary of Useful Terms from New
Horizons for Learning and the
Glossary of Measurement Terms from Harcourt Assessment, Inc. |
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