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 objectives The 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