MathAmigo

Your Helping Hand

Importance of Assessment

Assessment needs to be continuous

What do the students understand from the lesson?

What do I need to do to effect an improvement?

Effective teachers see assessment opportunities in ongoing classroom learning situations. They continually attempt to learn about students’ thinking and understanding and make it relevant to current learning tasks.

John Bransford et. al

How People Learn (p245)

National Academy Press (2000)

For the Teacher:

Accountability

Modern education makes teachers accountable for the performance of students

Stakeholders include:– Politicians– Administrators– Parents

Producing suitable reports is time consuming

Aims of MathAmigo Assessment

Primary aim: creation of reports that help teachers understand how they can help students

Secondary aim: reduce the time and effort required to produce assessment reports for stakeholders

Types of Assessment

Formative Assessment– Helping teachers to help students

Summative Assessment– Basic Data

Reports for Others– School– Class– Group– Individual Student– Historical

Formative Assessment

This uses a colour code Who is the best and worst student? Which topic are they struggling with?

Background: Average Score

Up triangle: best score

Down triangle: worst score

Assessment at Different Levels

The first level shows the topic The second level shows objectivesThe third level is the activity level

Performance Profiles

The earlier results reduce the average score

Clearly the student now grasps the idea

You can suppress the results

This reflects all the way through the system

Formative Assessment Options

Your teaching plan What you taught that week All activities done by the student Your curriculum standards

You can view the formative results against:

A School Report

A Class Report

A Group Report

Result History for the School

A Personal Report

Basic Data

You can view the basic data

You can export this to other assessment systems

Awards

You can encourage students with rewards for

– Effort– Progress– Achievement

Assessment

On-going formative assessment is essential part of an effective teaching strategy

MathAmigo produces these automatically Teachers can interact with these

– This means they can see what students need to work on to ensure maximum improvement

Reports for others are produced with minimal effort on the part of the teacher

You can export the data