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Understanding (Ch 14)
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the abstract science of number, quantity, and space. ___ may be studied in its own right ( pure ___ ), or as it is applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering ( applied ___ ).
What is math?
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Allowing students to explore different strategies to see which ones are the easiest and the most difficult.
What is allowing multiple strategies?
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A folder that contains pieces of a student’s work, some of which demonstrates different stages of completion.
What is a portfolio?
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The ACT and SAT measure against a predefined standard to evaluate student learning at the ends of an instructional period and are examples of this type of assessment.
What is a summative assessment?
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EDSE 3500! It is the most awesome class that I have ever taken, and Dr. Pratt Rocks!
What is your favorite class and instructor this semester?
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Math is about learning how to compute.Math is about following the rules to guarantee correct answers. Some people have the ability to do math and some people don’t.
What are common preconceptions abut math?
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Skills to carry out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently, and appropriately.
What is procedural fluency?
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Students are required to show how they can apply information or perform a task.
What is demonstration?
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Mrs. Barker likes to give essay quizzes in her class. When she grades them she usually uses a scoring guide that specifies what knowledge and skills she is looking for her students to use in their essays.
What is an example of using a rubric?
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This type of test asks to discuss one or more related ideas according to certain criteria. Advantages include:Assess higher-level abilities. Disadvantages include: Lack of consistency in grading. (Commonly the source of "hand cramp complaints)
What are essay tests?
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These are the strands: Conceptual Understanding, Strategic Competence, Adaptive, Reasoning, and Procedural Fluency. (Hint: what do they do?)
What are the strands that constitute mathematical proficiency?
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Focusing on an error, why it is an error, and how to fix it.
What is debugging?
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This type of assessment includes direct writing assessments, portfolios, exhibitions, and demonstrations.
What are performance tests?
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A test that is objective and asks students to supply information from memory, it assesses foundational knowledge. Disadvantages include: a focus on verbatim memorization. Advantages include: relatively easy to write and allow for breadth.
What is Short-Answer tests, and what are their advantages/disadvantages?
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To provide summaries of student performance. To monitor student progress. To diagnose specific strengths and weakness in an individual’s learning. To motivate further learning. Are important reasons we should do this.
Why Should We Assess Student Learning?
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Have a classroom that values student thoughts, builds on them, and promotes collaborative thinking. This will create a ____ classroom environment.
How do you create a balanced classroom environment?
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Requires factual knowledge and conceptual frameworks. (Hint: synonym for comprehension)
What does understanding require?
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Collecting information about how much knowledge and skill students have learned (measurement) and making judgments about the adequacy or acceptability of each student’s level of learning (evaluation).
What is an Assessment?
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A teacher that determines grades on the basis of whether each student has attained the predefined achievement for their grade level. This system uses predetermined standards.
What is Criterion-referenced grading?
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An assessment performed during class that can be done by asking students a series of popcorn questions. (Example, using individual white boards for students to write answers to questions the instructor asks.)
What is an example of a formative assessment?
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What does it mean to encourage math talk? (A)Giving lectures that reinforce correct math language. (B)Giving students the opportunity to speak math with their peers to identify misconceptions and promote understanding. (C)Give students opportunities to listen to correct math talk. (D)Give students opportunities to talk between important concepts to relax.
(B)Giving students the opportunity to speak math with their peers to identify misconceptions and promote understanding
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Learning about oneself as a learner, thinker, and problem solver.
What does metacognition emphasize?
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The 5 attributes are: significance, teachability, describability, reportability, and nonintrusiveness.
What are the 5 attributes of a useful classroom test?
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System assumes that classroom achievement will naturally vary among a group of heterogeneous students because of student differences as so compares the score of each student to the scores of the other students in order to determine grades.
What is Norm-Referenced Grading?
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Worshiping averages, Using zeros indiscriminately, Providing insufficient instruction before testing, Teaching for one thing but testing for another, Using pop quizzes to motivate students, Keeping the nature and content of the test a secret, etc.
What are inappropriate grading and teaching practices?