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Mack McCary
on May 19, 1998
at 9:18AM
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math assessment portfolio: middle school
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Our district has been working on assessment reform for five years in partnership with the NC Standards & Accountability Commission and CLASS (Grant Wiggins and Everett Kline). Part of our work this year has been assembling a portfolio of student work which will communicate to other teachers whether a student is competent in reaching benchmarks in math and communication skills.
One of our teachers recently submitted a portfolio of math work in eighth grade based on CMP materials, which we are implementing through our NSF grant.
Everett Kline exclaimed that the work she submitted really revealed that students were learning to understand the math they are using. The teacher included prompts (short performance tasks and investigations) as well as more authentic performance tasks she designed as culminations of each 9 weeks work using CMP units. The students are required to explain their reasoning and application of math concepts through writing and graphs.
We plan to use her work as part of our summer CMP training, as well as asking experienced teachers to bring samples of student work to illustrate the varied levels of student understanding when they are given specific CMP tasks.
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