Using Portfolio Assignments to Assess Students' Mathematical Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Fukawa-Connelly, Timothy; Buck, Stephen
Titel	Using Portfolio Assignments to Assess Students' Mathematical Thinking
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teacher, 103 (2010) 9, S.649-654 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0025-5769
Schlagwörter	Portfolios (Background Materials); Writing Assignments; Charter Schools; Portfolio Assessment; Mathematics Teachers; Student Evaluation; Evaluation Methods; Content Area Writing; Teaching Methods; Mathematics Instruction; Urban Schools; Mathematical Logic; Feedback (Response); Secondary School Mathematics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Portfoliobeurteilung; Mathematics; Teacher; Teachers; Mathematik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Schriftliche Übung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Mathematical logics; Mathematische Logik
Abstract	Writing in mathematics can improve procedural knowledge and communication skills and may also help students better understand and then remember problems. The majority of mathematics teachers know that they ought to include some writing assignments in their instructional plans, but the challenge of covering the curriculum and the time required to plan and institute a learning activity of this nature are high hurdles. Researchers found that writing activities are most effective when they use an explicit and well-designed model and when they work in teams of teachers to support one another. The purpose of this article is to show how teachers have implemented a portfolio assessment model at an urban charter school with impressive results. It also describes some of the decisions that teachers have to make to use a portfolio assignment in class. The authors offer an alternative model for a portfolio assignment and show how they can teach students to create portfolios successfully at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Contains 5 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10