Shares a teacher's stages of selecting and revising a performance-assessment task focusing on data handling. Discusses selection and revision criteria, examining student work, reflecting on the task, and revising the final task. (MKR)

Examines fourth-grade students' responses to a performance-assessment task in which students are engaged in exploring data. Includes an "Eating Patterns" task. (MKR)

Investigates whether student interviews provide teachers with a more detailed, accurate, and complete picture of children's mathematical understanding and whether this knowledge helps teachers improve the way they teach mathematics. Shows how to use student interviews as a guide to further instruction. (KHR)

Describes how the activities of a first-grade classroom model the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Assessment Standards. (MKR)

During fall semester of their senior year, preservice elementary teachers evaluated their mastery of mathematics and teaching methods and wrote an autobiography of their school mathematics experiences. This process helped the prospective teachers gain insight into their own strengths and weaknesses and improved rapport with the methods course…

Discusses the use of assessment to guide instruction using individual interviews, good questioning techniques, observations, and student portfolios. (MKR)

Discusses using two alternative assessment methods, journals and portfolios, with preservice teachers in an elementary mathematics methods course. (Contains 13 references.) (ASK)

Discusses the use of portfolios in mathematics education. Highlights self-assessment, portfolios in the hiring process, framework, possible contents, making selections, and evaluating portfolios. Concludes that portfolios are powerful assessment tools that can develop a student's reflection and responsibility for the learning process, augment…

Discusses reorganizing classrooms for more active participation of students, to give children the freedom to work with mathematical materials in new ways and to allow teachers to monitor children's learning in new ways. Discusses the use of graphing activities to assess children's knowledge. (MKR)

Discusses weak links in children's developing power in counting. Presents assessment information for mathematics curriculum planning and activities embedding the subskills of counting into daily routines. (MKR)

Discusses how one teacher encouraged students to communicate mathematically when discussing the lyrics to the song "Billy Boy." Students' problem solving was assessed by means of classroom discussion. (MKR)

Demonstrates how students' writings can be used to inform instruction and serve as the foundation for a teacher's portfolio on improving classroom practice. (MKR)

Discusses different approaches to using student journals in mathematics, including showing a heuristic and practicing skills, creating routine and nonroutine problems using real-life situations, documenting and analyzing mathematical thinking, and following up. (10 references) (MKR)

Presents an assessment activity to determine the ability of students to devise a plan for solving a problem and recording their work while solving the problem. Uses the theme of planning and organizing a birthday party. (MKR)

Discusses the use of vignettes (experiences expressed in narrative or dialog form) to merge assessment with teaching. The rule vignette and the two-answer vignette are discussed. (MKR)