MIAA 330

Mathematics Assessment

Laurie Slatkin

Assessment
The act of making a
judgment about
something
The act of assessing
something
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/assessment

Formative vs. Summative

Monitors student
learning
Ongoing feedback
Identifies strengths
and weaknesses
Improves teaching
and learning

Evaluates student
learning
End of unit
Measured against
standard or
benchmark
high stakes

Formative Assessments
Observations-anecdotal notes
Chin it-thumbs up/down
Quick summaries
Web/concept map
Quick write/check
3-2-1
Written check of understanding
Give feedback

Summative Assessments
State testing
District assessments
End of unit/chapter/module test
MAP
"Formative assessments are the
preventive check-ups throughout the
year; summative assessments are the
autopsy."
- Dr. Justin Tarte

Designing Authentic
Assessments
Selected response Performance task
Technology
Constructed
enhanced
response
Extended response Technology
enabled

Lets look at some

examples

5th grade

Of course, we need to
have a rubric

Reflection
We use different types of questions for
different purposes
Fact fluency? Selected response fits
the bill
Need information? Constructed
response gives the most bang for your
buck

Assessment Outcomes for All

Students Article Review

A Smorgasbord of Assessment Options

by Kathy A Bacon

Summary
Kathy A Bacon walks the reader through a fifth
grade teacher assessing her students knowledge
and understanding of geometric figures and solids.
She uses a variety of methods to assess and uses
both formative and summative. This helps her to
meet the needs of all students while giving her
information that Ms. Baker can then use to drive
her following instruction.

van Hiele Model of

Geometric Thought

Multifaceted
Assessments
Students create solid figures from nets
Students sort based on characteristics
Create solid figures from nets in the
virtual world online
Written explanations
3-d model performance task

Guidelines

Finished Product

Reflection
Choice is key
Product of thought
Culminating product-similar to our
project based learning!
Excellent way to assess and can be
made cross curricular

Error Analysis & Learning

Trajectories Project
Basic Operations in Algebraic Thinking
(K-5) and Expressions and Equations
(6-Algebra)
Multiplication from start to infinity! (or
finish, whichever comes first)

Some examples

3rd Grade Reflection

Common errors include not
understanding variables and that the
variable itself can change
Implications include the ability to
manipulate numbers and variables.
These lessons are the building blocks
for later algebra

Moving up-more examples

5th Grade Reflection

Common misconceptions for these concepts
included incorrect placement of place values on the
standard algorithms, confusing the estimate with the
actual factors, and forgetting to include the decimal
in their standard form number.
Implications included are that these skills are needed
to extend concepts into more advanced expressions
and equations. Students are laying the groundwork
to understanding that expressions are not just
calculations but can be described in terms of their
component parts.

The End
(of our trajectory)

Algebra Reflection
Student misconceptions were mainly missing
steps.
They forgot to find the square root in the last
step.
Students sometimes had difficulty identifying
the correct sides.
Implications are that these skills will be used
repeatedly throughout the students
academic career in algebra.

Assessment Data School Plan

Demographic Data & Analysis
Lincoln Unified School District
Don Riggio School
My 5th Grade Class
Interesting Demographics

Parent Education &

Ethnicity

English Learner
Demographics

Socio Eco & Academic

Data

Implications
My small EL population is still in need
of support
Vocab is important
My GATE population drives a need for
diverse and engaging lessons
My teaching has changed as has the
curriculum to support these needs

Assessment Data School

Plan
Kindergarten CCSS Operations and
Algebraic Thinking K.OA.1 through
K.OA.5
Students learn addition as putting
together and adding, and understand
subtraction as taking apart and taking
from.

Assessment Data School

Plan
1st Grade CCSS Operations and Algebraic
Thinking 1.OA.1 through 1.OA.6
Students learn to represent and solve problems
involving addition and subtraction, to understand
and apply properties of operations and the
relationship between addition and subtraction, to
add and subtract within 20, and to work with
addition and subtractions equations

Assessment Data School

Plan
2nd Grade CCSS Operations and Algebraic
Thinking 2.OA.1 through 2.OA.4
Students learn to represent and solve problems
involving additional and subtraction, add and
subtract within 20, use addition and subtraction
within 100 to solve one- and two- step word
problems, and work with equal groups of
objects to gain foundations for multiplication

Assessment Data School

Plan
3rd Grade CCSS Operations and Algebraic
Thinking 3.OA.1 through 3.OA.9
Students learn to represent and solve problems
involving multiplication and division, they
understand the properties of multiplication and the
relationship between multiplication and division,
students multiply and divide within 100, solve
problems involving the four operations, and identify
and explain patterns in arithmetic.

Assessment Data School

Plan
4th Grade CCSS Operations and
Algebraic Thinking 4.OA.1 through 4.OA.5
Students learn to use the four operations
with whole numbers to solve problems,
gain familiarity with factor and multiples,
and to generate and analyze patterns.

Assessment Data School

Plan
5th Grade CCSS Operations and
Algebraic Thinking 5.OA.1 through 5.OA.3
Students learn to write and interpret
numerical expressions and to analyze
patterns and relationships, and to apply
and extend previous understandings of
multiplication and division to fractions and
decimals.

Assessment Data School

Plan
6th Grade CCSS Expression and Equations
6.EE.1 through 6.EE.9
Students learn to apply and extend previous
understandings of arithmetic to algebraic
expressions, to reason about and solve one
variable equations and equalities, and to
represent and analyze quantitative relationships
between dependent and independent variables.

Assessment Data School

Plan
7th Grade CCSS Expression and
Equations 7.EE.1, 7.EE.2, and 7.EE.4
Students learn to use properties of
operations to generate equivalent
expressions and solve real-life and
mathematical problems using numerical
and algebraic expressions and equations.

Assessment Data School

Plan
Algebra CCSS Expression and Equations
8.EE.1 through 8.EE.8
Students learn to work with radicals and
integer exponents, understand the
connections between proportional
relationships, lines, and linear equations, and
analyze and solve linear equations and pairs
of simultaneous linear equations.

Lets wrap it up

MIAA 330
Subquestion
How will my knowledge of a variety of
assessments improve student
success?
How will this knowledge improve
communication with students parents?

 A variety of assessments will help support all

learners feel successful
Parents will know that their student is seen as an
individual
Different assessments will allow students to see
real achievement
Many modalities are addressed with a variety of
assessments
A variety of assessments will provide needed
information for instruction

Reflection
Assessment comes in all shapes and
sizes and for many purposes
Good teaching should begin with the end
in mind-not the test, but what do we want
students to learn
Formative assessment should drive
student learning
Summative assessment lets us know if
we can park the car

Many, many thanks to my

partners in crime

John

Debbie

The End