Progress Monitoring: Mathematics

Assessment

Take some time now to answer the following questions. Please note that the IRIS Center does not collect your Assessment responses. If this is a course assignment, you should turn them in to your professor using whatever method he or she requires. If you have trouble answering any of the questions, go back and review the Perspectives & Resources pages in this module.

1. Name at least three benefits of formative assessment.
2. Describe how GOM allows an educator to track a student’s growth in all skills across the entire academic year.
3. Briefly describe the GOM process, making sure to include each step.
4. Mr. Alexander, a sixth-grade mathematics teacher, is monitoring Imani’s progress using a commercially available GOM computation probe. Note: Although it would be more common to score by problems correct, in this example, Mr. Alexander scores using digits correct.
   1. Score Imani’s Week 7 probe by digits correct. Mr. Alexander denoted incorrect digits with a red slash. To help you determine Imani’s score, you can place a green dot below each correct digit.
      

      Review Description

      Imani’s computation probe is a single sheet consisting of 25 mathematics problems. Labeled “Computation Probe” at the top of the sheet, there are places for the student’s name and the date of administration. The lettered items represent a variety of mathematics problems, including addition and subtraction with both whole numbers and fractions, division, and multiplication. Imani has completed the first six items. Her answers are 4/15, 14.630, 1 4/5, 107368, 6527, and 10.1598. Mr. Alexander has marked the digits 7 and 3 incorrect in Imani’s fourth answer and the second 1 and 5 in her sixth response. He noted these errors by making a red slash mark through each digit. The rest of the digits are correct.

   2. Graph Imani’s data for Weeks 2–7. The data were collected on Tuesday and, therefore, should be graphed accordingly. Note: The data for Week 7 is the score obtained in 4a.
      • Week 2=18
      • Week 3=20
      • Week 4=20
      • Week 5=21
      • Week 6=22
      • Week 7=?
   3. Describe what Imani’s data indicate and the resulting instructional decision that Mr. Alexander should make.
   4. List two talking points that you would note in a meeting with Imani’s parents regarding her performance.

Click here to open Imani’s graph for printing.