Glimpse the future of mathematics assessment in Measuring Up This book features 13
classroom exercises for fourth grade students that demonstrate the dramatic meaning of …

Being proficient in mathematics involves having rich and connected mathematical
knowledge, being a strategic and reflective thinker and problem solver, and having …

Although classroom teachers have long used various forms of assessment to monitor their
students' mathematical learning and inform their future instruction, increasingly external …

In this article, I describe some efforts initiated about 2 decades ago to reform mathematics
assessment. Many, if not most, of those ideas have gradually eroded not only from school …

Today, there are strong pressures to move away from traditional multiple-choice or short-
answer tests, toward alternative forms of assessment that focus on “real-life” …

The MSEB, with generous support and encouragement from the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, seeks to bring discussion of assessment to school-and district-based practitioners …

The purpose of Topic Study Group 33 was to address issues related to assessment in
mathematics at all levels and in a variety of forms. Assessment and evaluation play an …

To achieve national goals for education, we must measure the things that really count.
Measuring What Counts establishes crucial research-based connections between standards …

There is increasing recognition that the methods currently used most widely by schools for
assessing student mathematics achievement are having a substantial negative impact on …

Assessment practices need to change in mathematics classrooms that adopt the curriculum
standards recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). An …