The Mathematics Assessment Collaborative: Performance Testing to Improve Instruction

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 367-374

  Foster, David ^a   Noyce, Pendred ^b  

^a Robert N Noyce Foundation   (United States)

^b Noyce Foundation   (United States)

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EID: 0346040308     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170408500507     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. For a description of the history of the controversy over curriculum, standards, and testing in California, see Suzanne Wilson, California Dreaming: Reforming Mathematics Education (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003).
2. William Schmidt, U.S. research director for the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, has made this statement in numerous places. See, for example, the press releases available on the Internet at http://ustimss/msu.edu.
3. Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Reston, Va.: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2000).
4. Balanced Assessment tasks can be found at http://balancedassessment. gse.harvard.edu.
5. Asked to identify the ways that MARS assessment services are unique, users of the MARS test have cited the intellectually rigorous nature of the tasks and rubrics, the willingness of MARS to customize assessments to client needs, and the value of scoring tasks as professional development. See Mark St. John et al., "A Study of the MARS Project: The Contributions to Clients," December 2000, available from Inverness Research Associates, www.inverness-research.org.
6. Quoted in St. John et al., p. 7.
7. Robert S. Siegler discusses the problem of students misinterpreting the equal sign as "simply a signal to execute an arithmetic operation" in "Implications of Cognitive Science Research for Mathematics Education," in Jeremy Kilpatrick, W. Gary Martin, and Deborah Schifter, eds., A Research Companion to PSSM (Reston, Va.: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2003).
8. Personal communication.