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Suggestions From Conference Participants for Instruments to Measure Student Outcomes in Mathematics (K-8 & 6-12)

published: 02/02/2001
posted to site: 02/02/2001

Suggestions From Conference Participants for Instruments to Measure Student Outcomes in Mathematics (K-8 & 6-12)

K-8 Mathematics

Machine Scored

  1. Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) - state test 4th grade
  2. Virginia SOL grade 3 Math
  3. Virginia SOL grade 5 Math
  4. State Assessment with subscales — concepts, operations, problem solving
  5. Assessments of Baseline Curriculum Standards (ABCs)

    6. Fresno Unified School District
    Survey of Math Standards
    Multiple choice, developed from NWEA item banks
    Key feature: continual growth scale from grades 2-10. You can evaluate how students grow over time.
  6. Standards Tests — Arizona = AIMS, Illinois = ISAT, Massachusetts = MCAS
  7. SAT 9
  8. ITBS
  9. Terra Nova
  10. North Carolina grade 3-8 End of grade math test — average scale score, percent at or above grade level
  11. DPS grade 3-8 Midyear Benchmark Tests in Mathematics
  12. Maine Educational Assessment — 4th & 8th grades
  13. San Diego County Office of Education, CA Math Test, K-8 Algebra, aligned with CA standards
  14. Grade 2 Uniform Year-End Assessment (hand scored, also open—ended).

Open-ended

  1. Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) — state test, 4th grade, constructed response items
  2. MARS — Mathematics Assessment Resource Services
  3. CTBS
  4. Curriculum Assessment from Investigations in Number, Data, and Space

    5. K-5, Teacher prepared/division prepared, Math recovery tasks
  5. State Standards Assessments — Arizona = AIMS, Illinois = ISAT, Massachusetts = MCAS
  6. Maine Educational Assessment 4th & 8th grades
  7. New TEC Assessments for Investigations Curriculum (end of unit assessment, also performance assessment)
  8. District assessment — Arizona = TERCC/CMD; California =NWCA, Visalia Comprehensive Assessment (K-8)

    9. (also performance assessment)
  9. CTB — MARS Mathematics Assessments grades 3-10

MARS developed, Balanced Assessment, Tasks published by CTB/McGraw Hill

Performance

  1. NAEP
  2. TIMMS
  3. Performance Tasks (by Charlotte Danielson)
  4. New Standards Reference Exam gr. 4
  5. Curriculum Assessments from Investigations in Number, Data & Space
  6. Balanced Assessment
  7. Maine Assessment Portfolio (MAP) — (K-2, 3-4, 5-8 — Multi-grade portfolios)

6-12 Mathematics

Machine-Scored

  1. Stanford-9 (multiple choice — procedures/problem-solving)
  2. North Carolina End of Course Tests — Algebra I, II and Geometry
  3. PSAT / SAT — scores/participation
  4. Advanced Placement exams — participation/percent passing
  5. Terra Nova
  6. TIMSS and TIMSS-R
  7. State Testing programs (Delaware, Colorado, Virginia, Pennsylvania)
  8. Teacher-made tests (curriculum-imbedded)
  9. University Math Placement Exam

Open-Ended

  1. Stanford-9
  2. New Standards
  3. Balanced Assessment
  4. Summative Assessment embedded within NSF designated curriculum materials

Performance

  1. CTB-MARS Assessments (grades 3-10) — New as of 2/01

    2. Performance Assessments — 2 40-minute sections
    • Developed by MARS, published by CTB-McGraw Hill
    • For more info, contact CTB-McGraw Hill representative or website, or MARS group at MSU
  2. Collaborative problem-solving (in groups)