By Betty Travis, Anne Collins, Terri Dahl, Jerry Johnson, Monique Morton, Sharon Walen
This volume is intended to supply
teachers with sample assessment
items that produce an accurate
picture of their students’ thinking,
to guide teachers’ instructional
decisions, and to serve as models
for creating original assessment
items. The items are selected or
modified from state, national
and international assessments;
textbooks; private collections
of mathematics educators, and
originally written problems. The
types of items include multiple
choice, short response and
extended response.
All items
either require students to explain
their answers or ask comparative
questions among answer choices.
Some items are scaffolded so that
all students have access to them;
only a few items require the use of
a calculator. Selected samples of
student work either exemplify a
correct response or typify certain
categories of student errors.
Winner of a 2006 APEX Award for Publication Excellence