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Mathematics Assessment Tasks: Using Comparison Data to Improve Student Achievement
(Grade 2–Geometry)
A one-day session
Audience:
- Teachers
- Instructional specialists and coaches
- Instructional leaders
- Central office assessment coordinators
In this session, you will learn how to use the components of a mathematics assessment resource that includes more than 80 constructed-response assessment tasks. The CD provided with this session has 8 to 10 standards-based assessment tasks per grade for students in grade 2 through Geometry, with comparison data on student performance for each task.
Using student work samples and scoring guides, you will analyze selected assessment tasks in ways that promote reflection on student learning; use the comparison data to influence classroom and district decisions about curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and determine next steps for effective implementation of this resource.
The Dana Center thanks the Noyce Foundation, its Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative, and its First in Mathematics Consortium, as well as the Shell Centre, for the use of their assessment tasks and resources that are part of this professional development. The Shell Centre (www.mathshell.com) is the original developer and owner of these tasks.