Brochure 1
Brochure 1
Brochure 1
What Are
Assessments?
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The Four Approaches
“Tell me and I
There are four basic approaches in the
formative assessment process that can be forget, Teach me
used to evaluate students’ understanding:
Observations, Questions, Interviews,
Tasks.
and I remember,
Observations:
Involve me and I
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Tasks Questions:
Tasks refer to products including problem Probing students thinking through
bases tasks, writing, and student self- questioning can provide useful data and
assessment. insights that could inform instructions.
The use of questions helps students get
Problem – Based Tasks past being “stuck” and promotes their
Are tasks that are connected to actual ability to think for themselves.
problem-solving activities used in
instruction. Problem based tasks have Types of Questions
several critical components that make
them suitable components of the formative 1. Information gathering
assessment process. 2. Student thinking
3. Mathematical structures,
Translation Tasks- connections, and relationships
Using four possible representations for 4. Reflection and justification
concepts, the students are asked, for
example, to demonstrate understanding Interviews:
using word models, numbers, and word
problems. As students flexibly move The diagnostics interview is one – on – one
between these representations, there is a investigation of a students’ thinking about
better chance that a concept will be a particular concept, procedure, process, or
integrated into a rich web of ideas. mathematical practice that lasts from 3 to
10 minutes.