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Assessment criteria and tools to evaluate students'
performance in the course (E2)
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key assignments -- Description of the task assigned for the mid-term exam
++ Midterm take-home exam: Choose a specific instructional episode
from one of the classroom stories you read so far in the course, and then
discuss in writing to what extent this episode meets (or does not meet)
the recommendations made in the NCTM Standards and the principles of an
inquiry approach to teaching mathematics. More specifically, your paper
will need at least to:
- briefly identify the specific episode you have chosen (for ex: "the
first 3 days in the Area story, where the students work on the problem
of finding the area of the rocket");
- identify the main instructional goals informing this experience (note
that in most cases these goals will not have been explicitly stated and
you will have to "derive" them from other information provided
in the story) & discuss their "worthwhileness" in light of
the guidelines offered by relevant NCTM Standards and the principles of
an inquiry approach;
- identify key activities/instructional strategies used by the teacher
& for each of these activities/strategies discuss (a) how (and why/why
not) it responds to the recommendations contained in the NCTM Teaching
Standards, and (b) to what extent it seems informed by an inquiry approach
(and why/why not);
- identify and discuss the effects of these activities/strategies and
what students learned as a result of the experience
(Major assignment worth 10 points and to be graded)
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