Transcript Assessment
Assessment
2:00 pm to 3.30 pm
Opportunity to…
· learn
· show
· know what to show
In communication
during day-to-day
classroom work
Marking
(in Sweden,
secondary and
upper secondary
school only
In communication
during entire class
sessions at the end
of teaching units
Assessment
Implicit and explicit
In connection with
teacher/student/pa
rent meetings
Summary in
assessment
forms/matrices
In connection with
diagnostic and
other test
Lisa Björklund Boistrup
Discourses in mathematics classrooms: a
multimodal social semiotic study
su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:355024
The consequences of assessment
(Pettersson, 2005)
Classroom assessment
• Summative assessment
Test on a local or national level
• Formative assessment
“all those activities undertaken by teachers, and/or by
their students, which provide information to be used
as feedback to modify the teaching and learning
activities in which they are engaged” (Black and Wiliam,
1998)
Feedback
Information provided by an agent
(e.g. teacher, peer, book, parent, or one’s
own experience)
about aspects of one’s performance or
understanding” (Hattie, 2009)
Feedback
• Feed back
what has happened ←
The teacher evaluates the student´s demonstrated
performances in terms of ”good” or ”bad”.
Rewarding. Punishing, approval, disapproval
• Feed forward
the future
→
The teacher use the student´s demonstrated (lack of knowing)
as a basis for continued learning
• Feed up
Students´demonstrated knowing
↕
explicit goals/criteria that should/could have been
reached and/or to be reached in the future
In Sweden
Presence of Assessment acts
in Classroom visited
• Feed back
• Feed forward 72
• Feed up
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Analysis of knowledge
Higher quality can e.g. be that the pupil shows
his/her understanding of a concept in different
ways and in different situations.
Therefore the analysis ought to focus in
what extent the pupil has access to his/her
knowledge in different situations.
1/4
1/4 of a string
1/4 of water in a glass
1/4 of a lump of play dough
1/4 of 8 stones
1/4 of a paper
Length
Volume
Weight
Quantity
Area
Deep understanding of a mathematical item or
topic is displayed by the ability to transfer the idea
between different representations: pictorial,
verbal, symbolic and the real world.
Weakness in understanding are often
pinpointed by weakness in representations.
(Alistair McIntosh)
Four kinds of representations
Event
The fishing huts
Picture
Number
#1 1+1·4=5
#2 1+2·4=9
# 3 1 + 3 · 4 = 13
# 4 1 + 4 · 4 = 17
etc
Word
First I built a
hut with 5
sticks, then I
built a second
hut with 4
sticks. After
that I
continued …
Symbols
1 stick + 4 sticks for each new hut
1 st + 4 st · number of huts
1 st + 4 st · n
1+4·n
1 + 4n
4n + 1
Documentation which highlights the mathematics
Documentation which highlights the mathematics
Assessment concerning
…
· Problem solving capability
· Comprehension and method
· Accomplishment
· Communication capability
· Mathematical language and/or representation
· Clarity of presentation
Three levels
Qualitative levels
Mathematical
language and/or
representation
Poor and
occasionally
wrong
Acceptable but
with some
shortages
Correct and
appropriate
The area of a triangle
on small pieces of papers
Documentation
which shows development of knowledge
What I know about …
What I have learnt about …
Documentation
which shows development of knowledge
What have you learnt since …?
Documentation
which highlights the mathematics
Documentation
which shows development of knowledge
The ellipse model
Similarities
and
Differences
Triangle – Rectangle
Similarities
· both consist of straight lines
· both have angles
· you calculate the perimeter in the
same way: you add the sides
· both have a base and height
· both have an area
Differences
· three sides
· three angles
· have not parallel
sides
· the three angles
are not always
the same
· maximum one
angle is a right
angle
· four sides
· four angles
· have parallel
sides
· the four angles
are always
the same
· all angles
are right angles
Name:______________________ Class:____
Addition
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I think it is when you are doing different sports
I think it is computor
I don´t know, but I take a chance: it´s different jobs
When you are outdoors walking
Something with a pocket calculator
I think it is what ever … or theatre
It means plus, because it sounds like that
Something on the car
It is plus
It is like 3+3=6
Addition is when you get warm when you are running
Additon is a counting sign. The signs name is addition and is
plus. You use plus when you are plussing something like 4+4=8
• Additon is when someone is alone and another one is coming.
Oral analyses
• The pupils discuss in pairs or in small groups.
A respondent is speaking on behalfs of
others.
Oral analyses
• The pupils discuss in pairs or in small groups.
A respondent is speaking on behalfs of
others.
• Ask all to write down an answer and then
reading out a selected one
What happens …?
· Make an equilateral
triangle.
· What happens with the
shape if you add another
side to the triangle?
· Describe the shape!
· Check!
Triangle (3 sides)
Quadrilateral (4)
What happens …?
· What happens if you add
another side …
Pentagon (5)
· What´s the name of the
new shape?
Hexagon (6)
Heptagon (7)
Octagon (8)
Oral analyses
• The pupils discuss in pairs or in small groups.
A respondent is speaking on behalfs of
others.
• Ask all to write down an answer and then
reading out a selected one
• Give pupils a choice between different
possible answers and ask them to vote on the
options.
Small cubes in a big cube
Daniela has got cubes of equal size. She has put
some of them into a box shaped like a cube in the
way you see on the picture.
What maximum number of cubes
can she put into the box?
a/ 9
b/ 13
c/ 17
d/ 21
e/ 27
Ecolier 2007
Area and perimeter
A parallellogram is divided in two parts P and Q
as shown in the figure
What statement is surely true?
a/ P has a bigger perimeter than Q
b/ P has a smaller perimeter than Q
c/ P has a smaller area than Q
d/ Q and P have the same area
e/ Q and P have the same perimeter
Benjamin 2007
Four routes
Between two points four routes are drawn.
Which route is the longest?
A
B
C
D
E: All are equal
Eccolier 2006
Folding cubes
We are going to build a cube like this
Which of the following foldings are impossible?
a/ 1 and 3
b/1 and 5
c/ 3 and 4
d/3 and 5
e/ 2 and 4
Ecolier 2008
National tests
in mathematics
The side in an equilateral triangle is 5 dm.
How large area has the triangle?
One choice is right. Circle your answer.
6,3 dm2
10,8 dm2
Solution frequency
Girls: 0,10
12,5 dm2
Boys: 0,13
15 dm2
25 dm2
Area with sticks
area < 0,5 a.u.
area ≈ 0,43 a.u.
Pedagogical material
Geoboards
National tests in
mathematics
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The area of the rectangle is 18 cm2
and the perimeter is 22 cm.
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Draw another rectangle with the
same area (18 cm2) but with a
shorter perimeter. Each of the four
vertices of the rectangle must be
located at a dot.
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Find the perimeter of your
rectangle. Show your calculations
here: