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Rich Mathews
on March 3, 2000
at 10:03AM
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My name is Richard Mathews and I am Assistant Director
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My name is Richard Mathews and I am Assistant Director of Science for the Pittsburgh Public Schools. My colleague, Diane Briars, has had success in reforming mathematics in our district through the LSC PRIME (Pittsburgh's Reform in Mathematics Education). She has established an assessment system using formative assessments at the classroom level with the Everyday Mathematics and Connected Mathematics Programs. The New Standards Reference Exam is used as an external tool to validate the results.
Currently in science we are using FOSS K- 5. We are in the process of building a middle school program composed of FOSS, Event-Based Science, SEPUP, and FACETS. Each of these programs have embedded assessments and the TIMSS Release Tasks would also serve as a collection of assessments. Following the same model as mathematics we are searching for an external summative evaluation. Currently we are reviewing PASS The Partnership for the Assessment of Standards-Based Science from WestEd.
My goal is to establish a science assessment system which assesses the conceptual understanding of students K-12 in selected concepts.
Looking forward to the discussion.
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