Mathematics Assessment and Evaluation - Imperatives for Mathematics Educators

Are current testing practices consistent with the goals of the reform movement in school mathematics? If not, what are the alternatives? How can authentic performance in mathematics be assessed?

These and similar questions about tests and their uses have forced those advocating change to examine the way in which mathematical performance data is gathered and used in American schools. This book provides recent views on the issues surrounding mathematics tests, such as the need for valid performance data, the implications of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics for test development, the identification of valid items and tests in terms of the Standards, the procedures now being used to construct a sample of state assessment tests, gender differences in test taking, and methods of reporting student achievement.

About the author

Thomas A. Romberg is Sears Roebuck Foundation-Bascom Professor in Education at the National Center for Research in Mathematical Science Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas A Romberg (Editor), Thomas A. Romberg (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780791408995
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0899-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Suny Series in Tantric Studies; Suny Series, Reform in Mathema; Suny Series in Tantric Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology