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Direct linkPhelan, Julia C.; Choi, Kilchan; Niemi, David; Vendlinski, Terry P.; Baker, Eva L.; Herman, Joan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
This paper describes results from field testing of middle-school math formative assessments alongside professional development and instructional resources. We employed a randomised, controlled design to address the question: Does using our formative assessment strategies improve student performance on assessments of key mathematical ideas relative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Formative Evaluation
Download full textPhelan, Julia; Vendlinski, Terry; Choi, Kilchan; Dai, Yunyun; Herman, Joan; Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The POWERSOURCE[c] intervention is intended as a generalizable and powerful formative assessment strategy that can be integrated with any mathematics curriculum. POWERSOURCE[c] includes both a system of learning-based assessments and an infrastructure to support teachers' use of those assessments to improve student learning. The core undertaking…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Intervention, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Curriculum
Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The POWERSOURCE[C] intervention is intended as a generalizable and powerful formative assessment strategy that can be integrated with any on-going mathematics curriculum to improve teachers' knowledge and practice and, in turn, student learning. Combining theory and research in cognition, assessment and learning (for both adults and students) with…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Education, Intervention
Phelan, Julia; Choi, Kilchan; Vendlinski, Terry; Baker, Eva L.; Herman, Joan L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
This report describes results from field-testing of POWERSOURCE[C] formative assessment alongside professional development and instructional resources. The researchers at the National Center for Research, on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST) employed a randomized, controlled design to address the following question: Does the…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Educational Strategies
Phelan, Julia; Vendlinski, Terry; Choi, Kilchan; Herman, Joan; Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The POWERSOURCE[c] intervention is a generalizable and powerful formative assessment-based strategy that can be integrated with any ongoing mathematics curriculum to improve teachers' knowledge and practice and, in turn, student learning. Our primary research objectives are based on our hypotheses that as a result of POWERSOURCE[c], teachers will…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Computer Managed Instruction, Intervention, Formative Evaluation
Baker, Eva L. – 1987
Examining the status of the United States National Study of the International Evaluation of Educational Achievement Study of Written Composition (IEA-SWC), this report discusses the results of SWC, which attempted to assess, nationally and internationally, the quality of student writing in schools by collecting and evaluating student compositions.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Grade 10
