Balanced Assessment for the Mathematics Curriculum

该项目将为K-12数学教学编制具有广泛国家适用性的评估材料，这些材料不仅是衡量学生成绩的一种手段，而且也是课程改革的积极力量。该项目将有几种产品：o针对三个等级范围的每个等级的评估包，以例证国家目标和相关的国家指导方针--高质量、实用性，在国家商定的数学课程目标(例如，两卷NCTM标准中的目标)方面保持平衡；O提供明确的课程支援，包括课室教材和专业发展资源，以促进过渡，使典型的教师能让学生在接受全面的新课程前，作好准备，有效地处理最初的新任务；O评估设计者与与课程设计和提供有关的人员--国家课程开发项目、专业协会、各州和其他课程目标相似的人--之间积极的合作联系；O通过评估对课程产生的压力推动课程改进，这将推进国家课程目标。这些产品将在三个国家地点(加利福尼亚州、马萨诸塞州和密歇根州)和壳牌中心开发，并与NSF支持的课程项目和相关的州教育部积极合作。

This project will produce assessment materials for mathematics instruction K-12 that have broad national applicability -- and that serve not only as a means of measuring student attainment, but also as a positive force for curriculum change. The project will have several kinds of product: o assessment packages for each of three grade ranges that exemplify national goals and related state guidelines - high quality, practicality, and balance in terms of nationally agreed curriculum objectives for mathematics (e.g. those in the two volumes of NCTM Standards); o explicit curriculum support, including both classroom materials and professional development resources, to facilitate the transition, enabling typical teachers to prepare their students to tackle effectively what are initially new kinds of task before they take on comprehensive new curricula; o active collaborative links between the assessment designers and those concerned with the design and delivery of curricula -- national curriculum development projects, the professional associations, states and others who have similar curriculum objectives; and o a driving force for curriculum enhancement through the pressures on the curriculum generated by this assessment, which will forward national curriculum objectives. These products will be developed at three national sites (in California, Massachusetts, and Michigan) and the Shell Centre, in active collaboration with NSF-supported curriculum projects and the related State Departments of Education.