Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (S U N Y Series, Reform in Mathematics Education) [Paperback]

Thomas A. Romberg (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Suny Series, Reform in Mathematics Education | Publication Date: March 30, 1995

Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in key roles while developing the theme that we cannot reform the way in which school mathematics is taught without radically reforming the ways the effects of that teaching are monitored. Among others, this volume addresses the issues of the specification of performance standards, the development of authentic tasks, the measure of status and growth or a combination, the development of psychometric models, and the development of scoring rubrics. The new models proposed in this book give teachers a wealth of non-traditional assessment strategies and concrete ways to obtain measures of both group and individual differences in growth.

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About the Author

Thomas A. Romberg is Director of the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education and Sears Roebuck Foundation-Bascom Professor in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the editor of Mathematics Assessment and Evaluation: Imperatives for Mathematics Educators, also published by SUNY Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (March 30, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791421627
• ISBN-13: 978-0791421628
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,817,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)