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Mathematics Formative Assessment, Volume 2
50 More Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning

A Joint Publication With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics



December 2016 | 256 pages | Corwin

Everything you need to promote mathematical thinking and learning!

Good math teachers have a robust repertoire of strategies to move students’ learning forward. This new volume from award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey helps you improve student outcomes with 50 all-new formative assessment classroom techniques (FACTS) that are embedded throughout a cycle of instruction. Descriptions of how the FACTs promote learning and inform teaching, including illustrative examples, support the inextricable link between instruction and learning.

Useful across disciplines, Keeley and Tobey’s purposeful assessment techniques help K-12 math teachers:

  • Promote conceptual understanding 
  • Link techniques to core ideas and practices 
  • Modify instruction for diverse learners
  • Seamlessly embed formative assessment throughout the stages of instruction
  • Focus on learning targets and feedback

Instead of a one-size fits all approach, you can build a bridge between your students’ initial ideas and correct mathematical thinking with this one-of-a-kind resource!

 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Chapter 1: An Introduction to 50 More Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs)
Classroom Snapshot of Formative Assessment in Practice

 
Why 50 More FACTs?

 
Elicitation FACTs

 
Supporting Productive Mathematics Discourse

 
Next Steps

 
 
Chapter 2: Formative Assessment and Standards
FACTs and Key Ideas in Mathematics

 
FACTs and Mathematics Practices

 
 
Chapter 3: Get the FACTs! Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques
1. Comment Coding

 
2. Concept Mix-Up Probes

 
3. Confidence Level Assessment (CLA)

 
4. Conjecture Cards

 
5. Cover-Up

 
6. Enhanced Multiple Choice

 
7. Error Analysis

 
8. Extended Sticky Bars

 
9. Eye Contact Partners

 
10. Feedback Check-Ins

 
11. Feedback Focused Group Discourse

 
12. Feedback Sandwich

 
13. Find Someone Who

 
14. Fingers Under Chin

 
15. Flip the Question

 
16. Four Corners Jigsaw

 
17. Gallery Walk

 
18. Group Frayer Model

 
19. Group Talk Feedback

 
20. Homework Card Sort

 
21. I Think–I Rethink

 
22. Interactive Whole-Class Card Sorting

 
23. Learning Intentions

 
24. Learning Intentions Reflection

 
25. Let’s Keep Thinking

 
26. Lines of Agreement

 
27. Most and Least Sure About

 
28. Now Ask Me a Question

 
29. Partner Strategy Rounds

 
30. Plus–Delta

 
31. PMI (Plus–Minus–Interesting)

 
32. Questioning Cue Cards

 
33. Ranking Tasks

 
34. RAQ (Revise, Add, Question) Feedback

 
35. Reflect Aloud

 
36. Reflect Then Self-Assess

 
37. “Rules That Expire” Probes

 
38. Seeing Structure

 
39. Slide Sort

 
40. Sort Envelopes

 
41. Structures for Taking Action

 
42. Success Indicators

 
43. Success Indicator Problem Generating

 
44. Take Stock

 
45. Talk Moves

 
46. Thermometer Feedback

 
47. Traffic Light Sliders

 
48. VDR (Vote, Discuss, Revote)

 
49. What Stuck With You Today?

 
50. X Marks the Spot

 
 
Appendix: Annotated Resources for Mathematics Formative Assessment
 
References
 
Index

Page D. Keeley

PAGE KEELEY has been a leader in science education for over 20 years. She "retired" from the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) in 2012 where she had been the Senior Science Program Director since 1996. Today she works as an independent consultant, speaker, and author providing professional development to school districts and organizations in the areas of formative assessment and teaching for conceptual understanding. Page has been the principal investigator and project director on 3 National Science Foundation-funded projects including the Northern New England Co-Mentoring Network (NNECN), PRISMS- Phenomena... More About Author

Cheryl Rose Tobey

Cheryl Rose Tobey is a senior mathematics associate at Education Development Center (EDC) in Massachusetts. She is the project director for Formative Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom: Engaging Teachers and Students (FACETS) and a mathematics specialist for Differentiated Professional Development: Building Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Struggling Students (DPD); both projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). She also serves as a director of development for an Institute for Educational Science (IES) project, Eliciting Mathematics Misconceptions (EM2). Her work is primarily in the areas of formative assessment... More About Author

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