ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
“Teachers’ regular use of formative assessment improves their students’ learning, especially if teachers have additional guidance on using the assessment to design and to individualize instruction. Although research to date has only involved one type of formative assessment (that based on items sampled from the major curriculum objectives for the year, based on state standards), the results are sufficiently promising that the Panel recommends regular use of formative assessment for students in the elementary grades.” (National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report, 2008)
The purpose of Florida's Formative Assessment Project for Kindergarten through Grade 3 Mathematics is to research, design, build, and support a classroom-based assessment system that informs instruction. This system will be designed to provide teachers with tools and strategies to identify what students know and can do and to decide on next steps for instruction.
Toward this goal, by June 30, 2009, FCR-STEM is:
- defining the purposes, assessment design, mode of administration, measurement model, use of results, time-frame, and implementation strategy through collaboration with the Florida Department of Education and an advisory group
- identifying the relevant focus of a literature review
- soliciting information from other states
- preparing a preliminary plan for the development of mathematics assessments.
2008-2009 Products
- National Advisory Panel Webinar, February 2009 (Download PDF)
- Literature Review on Mathematics Formative Assessment May, 2009 Final Version (Download PDF)
- National Advisory Panel Webinar, June 2009 (Download PDF)
- Results of State Survey of Mathematics Formative Assessment (June, 2009)
- Assessment design and plan for K-3 Mathematics Formative Assessment (June, 2009)
- Project Report Files (July 2009)
Core Team Members
Project Director: Kris Ellington, Ed.S.
Literature Review Project Director: Karen DeMeester, Ph.D.
Graduate Assistant: Faye Jones
Advisory Panel (see list of members)
Presentations
- January, 2009 (Download PowerPoint) Florida Association of Mathematics Supervisors (FAMS) and Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics (FCTM)
Florida's Formative Assessment National Advisory Panel
Bill Bush
University of Louisville
Mathematics and Assessment
Ben Clarke
Pacific Institutes for Research
Elementary Mathematics Curriculum & Assessment
Rich DiPatri
Superintendent of Brevard County Schools
Policy and Assessment
Anne Foegen
Iowa State University
Exceptional Student Education, Assessment, Group Response Technology
Lynn Fuchs
Vanderbilt University
Assessment of Students with Disabilities in reading and mathematics
Diane Gard
Brevard County Schools
Elementary Mathematics Resource Teacher
Margaret Heritage
University of California in Los Angeles
Formative Assessment and Learning Progressions
John Hosp
Florida Center for Reading Research
Aligning Assessment with Instruction
Mary Hool
Orange County Schools
Principal, Sand Lake Elementary
Asha Jitendra
University of Minnesota
Formative Assessment of Mathematics Problem Solving
Tim Kenney
Duval County Schools
Elementary Educator and Presidential Award Finalist in Mathematics Education
Barbara Knox
Hillsborough County Schools
Elementary Educator, Kindergarten specialty
Richard Lesh
Indiana University
Problem Solving and Assessment in Mathematics and Science
Scott Marion
National Center for the Improvement of Education Assessment
Carol Newman
Broward County Schools, retired
Elementary Mathematics Specialist
Jim Pellegrino
University of Illinois at Chicago
Cognition and Educational Assessment
Charlene Richardson-Brinson
Polk County Schools
Senior Director of Elementary Education
Natalie Roca
Sarasota Public Schools
Assessment Coordinator and member of Florida's Assessment and Accountability Advisory Committee
Christine Sandy
Marion County Schools
Executive Director of Elementary Schools
Walter Secada
University of Miami
Mathematics and English Language Learners Education
Sally Shay
Miami-Dade Public Schools
Assessment Coordinator and member of Florida's Assessment and Accountability Advisory Committee
Valerie Shute
Florida State University
Formative Assessment
Denisse Thompson
University of South Florida
Mathematics Education
President of the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Sandy Titsworth
Pinellas County Schools
Elementary Mathematics Supervisor
Esther Visiedo
Miami-Dade County Schools
Principal, Bent Tree Elementary School
Patty Weisbach
Lake County Schools
Director of Elementary Curriculum
Ramona Wright
Escambia County Schools
Elementary Mathematics Specialist
Karol Yeatts
Warner Southern College
Presidential Awardee for Elementary Mathematics
Early Childhood Specialist
