Standards-Based Mathematics Assessment in Middle School: Rethinking Classroom Practice

✍ Scribed by Michelle Fine, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Maria Elena Torre, Janice Bloom, April Burns, Thomas A. Romberg

Publisher: Teachers College Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 265
Series: Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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