Level 3

Assessing Student Performance Against the Common Core Standards and Using Results to Improve Performance

This mathematics session is designed for participants with a basic understanding of performance-based assessment and instruction as well as the Exemplars assessment rubric. Typically, participants will have completed the Level 1 training and have some experience doing problem solving with assessment in their classrooms.

Broad Agenda

  • Assess participants' student work brought from their classrooms to inform instruction
  • Discuss strengths and weaknesses evident in student work in relation to the Common Core standards and the Exemplars assessment rubric
  • Review resources for working/assessment portfolios and use of Exemplars Preliminary Planning Sheets
  • Address specific questions pertaining to Exemplars assessment rubric to improve scoring validity and reliability
  • Develop and share strategies to enhance learning opportunities
  • Investigate strategies for developing students' mathematical communication
  • Analyze data in mathematics to inform instruction
  • Use student errors in mathematical reasoning as a teaching tool
  • Develop strategies for moving students from an "almost meets" the standards level to a "meets" the standards level
  • Utilize critical-thinking questions to promote mathematical connections
  • Teach students how to communicate their mathematical thinking
  • Integrate mathematical representations into problem solving

Testimonials

Thank you — to coin a phrase — This old dog learned some new tricks!

W. Koerner, Middle School Teacher

This was the best workshop I've been to. So informative!

R. Sagesse, Kindergarten Special Ed Teacher