Measurement

Challenges Aligning Existing Measures with Professional Development Learning Goals to Evaluate Program Effectiveness

Day
Wed

This session provides a forum for discussing the challenges of evaluating program effectiveness by using existing measures that vary in their alignment with program learning goals.

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2014 Session Types
Collaborative Panel Session

This session provides a forum for discussion around issues of alignment between programs, their learning goals, and the measures for assessing program effectiveness. The session seeks to offer ideas and strategies on how to tackle these kinds of issues.

The session addresses a common challenge in research—the tension between the need for using existing measures to ensure that research results can be compared across studies and the need for using measures that are well-aligned with a program’s learning goals to assess treatment effects.

Teaching Viable Argumentation and Measuring the Effects

Day
Tues

How do we encourage referent-based mathematical argumentation without encouraging students to request that examples accompany otherwise viable arguments? Assessment concerns are explored and discussed.

Date/Time
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2014 Session Types
Feedback Session (Work in Development)
Presenters

The LAMP project has developed a sequence of lessons in a hypothetical learning trajectory that targets students’ ability to write viable arguments in algebraic contexts. Most of the lessons encourage students to produce a referent (e.g., variable expression or equation, generic example, diagram) as the foundation of their argument. Students come to the lessons with a predisposition for example production in support of their claims and to augment arguments.

Learning as a Community: Maximizing the Impact of Research Syntheses in Science Education

Day
Tues

This interactive session is designed to promote critical thinking about current research practices and integrate a variety of perspectives on research syntheses and how they can help advance education research.

Date/Time
-
2014 Session Types
Collaborative Panel Session
Session Materials

Examples of research practices that limit the validity of research syntheses are not difficult to find. For example, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and Abt Associates reported in their Compendium of STEM Instruments that psychometric reporting practices in the STEM community tend to be insufficient, and this limited what they could learn from their synthesis.

Evaluating and Improving a Learning Trajectory for Linear Measurement in Elementary Grades 2 and 3: A Longitudinal Study

We examined children’s development of strategic and conceptual knowledge for linear measurement. We conducted teaching experiments with eight students in grades 2 and 3, based on our hypothetical learning trajectory for length to check its coherence and to strengthen the domain-specific model for learning and teaching.We checked the hierarchical structure of the trajectory by generating formative instructional task loops with each student and examining the consistency between our predictions and students’ ways of reasoning.

Author/Presenter

Clements, Douglas

Barrett, Jeffrey

Sarama, Julie

Cullen, Craig

McCool, Jenni

Witkowski-Rumsey, Chepina

Klanderman, David

Year
2012

NCSM Conference

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Associated Dates and Deadlines
March 26, 2010 - Advanced Registration Deadline

Whether you're a first-timer or a veteran of NCSM Annual Conferences, join us for three exciting days focused on important issues for leaders in mathematics education.

NCSM's Program Committee has lined up a terrific slate of speakers who will help us focus on "Charting a Course to Mathematics Leadership."

Conference sessions will be led by experts in their field-people at the forefront of change in mathematics education.

The six strands featured at this exciting and educational NCSM event are:

2011 NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Associated Dates and Deadlines
Proposals accepted beginning February 2010

For more information on the 2011 NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition, visit the NCTM website.

For more information on proposal submission, click here.

Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting:

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2010 NCTM Regional Meeting and Exposition - New Orleans

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Regional Conferences feature more than 200 presentations offering quality professional development at locations throughout North America. These sessions and workshops are led by some of the best math teachers and mathematics education experts. Engaging exhibits allow you to see, ask questions about, and purchase top products for teachers and students.

For more information, visit the NCTM website.

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2010 NCTM Regional Meeting and Exposition - Baltimore

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Regional Conferences feature more than 200 presentations offering quality professional development at locations throughout North America. These sessions and workshops are led by some of the best math teachers and mathematics education experts. Engaging exhibits allow you to see, ask questions about, and purchase top products for teachers and students.

For more information, visit the NCTM website.

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