Seminar: CRME: The ICCAMS Project: Reflections on the design of research-informed materials in secondary mathematics

Date(s)
Thursday 3rd November 2011 (16:30-18:00)
Contact
Carol.Hill@nottingham.ac.uk or tel: 0115 9514410 to express your interest in attending.
Description

Professor Margaret Brown, Dr. Dietmar Küchemann and Dr Jeremy Hodgen
Assessment for Learning Group
King's College London

Considerable claims have been made for the potential of formative assessment to improve learning. Over the past decade, formative assessment has been phenomenally “successful” with both policy-makers and the teaching profession, but evidence suggests that teachers and schools have considerable difficulties in implementing the approach, particularly in mathematics. Drawing on data from the Increasing Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Structures (ICCAMS) project, we will explore the difficulties and obstacles involved in implementing formative assessment. We will describe how we have addressed these difficulties in the pedagogical approach that we have developed in collaboration with a group of teachers. Central to this is the use of conceptual models such as the Cartesian graph, double number lines and ratio tables. We will discuss some challenges inherent in the use of such models.

This talk will take place in Room A34, Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus 

Refreshments will be available from 4.00 pm

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Refreshments will be available from 4.00 pm

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