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Investigations into Assessment in Mathematics Education

An ICMI Study

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Editors:
  1. Mogens Niss

    1. Roskilde University, Denmark

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Part of the book series: New ICMI Study Series (NISS, volume 2)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Assessment in Mathematics Education and Its Effects: An Introduction

    • Mogens Niss
    Pages 1-30

  3. The Chain and the Arrow: From the History of Mathematics Assessment

    • Jeremy Kilpatrick
    Pages 31-46

  4. The Relationship between Assessment, Curriculum and Society

    • Geoffrey Howson
    Pages 47-56

  5. An International View of Mathematics Assessment — Through a Class, Darkly

    • Jim Ridgway, Don Passey
    Pages 57-72

  6. Paradigms, Problems and Assessment: Some Ideological Implications

    • Peter Galbraith
    Pages 73-86

  7. Epistemological Issues and Challenges to Assessment: What is Mathematical Knowledge?

    • David Wheeler
    Pages 87-95

  8. How One Comes to Know: Models and Theories of the Learning of Mathematics

    • Thomas A. Romberg
    Pages 97-111

  9. What does to Assess Mean? The Case of Assessing Mathematical Knowledge

    • Antoine Bodin
    Pages 113-141

  10. A Critical View of Assessment in Mathematics Education: Where is the Student as a Subject?

    • Stieg Mellin-Olsen
    Pages 143-156

  11. Assessing Mathematical Thinking and Learning Potential in Primary Grade Children

    • Herbert P. Ginsburg, Susan F. Jacobs, Luz S. Lopez
    Pages 157-167

  12. Diagnostic Assessment in Arithmetic

    • Bengt Johansson
    Pages 169-184

  13. Challenges to the Improvement of Assessment Practice

    • John Izard
    Pages 185-194

  14. Improving the Design and Balance of Mathematical Assessment

    • Malcolm Swan
    Pages 195-216

  15. The Assessment of Performance Unit’s Monitoring Surveys 1978–1987

    • Derek Foxman
    Pages 217-228

  16. TIMSS: The Third International Mathematics and Science Study

    • David F. Robitaille, J. Stuart Donn
    Pages 229-244

  17. The Validity of International Performance Comparisons

    • Gila Hanna
    Pages 245-252

  18. Visualizing a Theory of the Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of Mathematics

    • Norman L. Webb
    Pages 253-263

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 265-270
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About this book

This book is one of the first to attempt a systematic in-depth analysis of assessment in mathematics education in most of its important aspects: it deals with assessment in mathematics education from historical, psychological, sociological, epistmological, ideological, and political perspectives. The book is based on work presented at an invited international ICMI seminar and includes chapters by a team of outstanding and prominent scholars in the field of mathematics education.
Based on the observation of an increasing mismatch between the goals and accomplishments of mathematics education and prevalent assessment modes, the book assesses assessment in mathematics education and its effects. In so doing it pays particular attention to the need for and possibilities of assessing a much wider range of abilities than before, including understanding, problem solving and posing, modelling, and creativity.
The book will be of particular interest to mathematics educators who are concerned with the role of assessment in mathematics education, especially as regards innovation, and to everybody working within the field of mathematics education and related areas: in R&D, curriculum planning, assessment institutions and agencies, teacher trainers, etc.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Roskilde University, Denmark

    Mogens Niss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Investigations into Assessment in Mathematics Education

  • Book Subtitle: An ICMI Study

  • Editors: Mogens Niss

  • Series Title: New ICMI Study Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1974-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2095-1Published: 31 December 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4232-3Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1974-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6872

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1745

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 270

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Mathematics, general

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