Investigations in Mathematics: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment

数学调查：传统评估的替代方案将开发评估技术和工具，帮助教师和八年级学生专注于学生在广泛的现实和想象情景中对基本数学思想的理解和交流能力。劳伦斯科学馆将汇集一群数学家、数学教育家和数学教师，创建一套工具，称为“调查”，并建立一个将评估和教学融为一体的工具使用过程。在每次调查中，学生将被要求阅读、理解、概念化和描述问题情景；使用数学技能和知识来理解情景；并以可理解和评估的形式交流他们的思维。调查将使学生有机会巩固和应用他们的数学理解来解决复杂的问题。这套教材将包括关于引入调查的教学建议、在学生进行调查时如何帮助他们、样本评分方案，以及给学生对他们工作的反馈的想法。调查将集中在课程中最重要的数学思想上。

Investigations in Mathematics: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment will develop assessment techniques and tools that help teachers and eighth grade students focus on students' understanding of and ability to communicate about essential mathematical ideas in a wide range of realistic and imaginative situations. The Lawrence Hall of Science will assemble a group of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and mathematics teachers to create a collection of tools, called "investigations", and a process for using them which integrates assessment and instruction. In each investigation, students will be required to read, understand, conceptualize, and represent a problem situation; to use mathematical skills and knowledge to make sense of the situation; and to communicate their thinking in a form that can be understood and evaluated. Investigations will give students the opportunity to consolidate and apply their mathematical understandings to the solution of complex problems. Included in the package will be teaching suggestions for the introduction of investigations, ways to assist students as they work on investigations, sample scoring schemes, and ideas for giving students feedback on their work. The investigations will focus on the most important mathematical ideas of the curriculum.