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Addressing the Standards
Focus on the Standards was of the utmost importance to me. I also wanted to be sure that I was assessing my students only one the given standard. As a district, we have adopted the Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt curriculum "Go Math." This curriculum is very rigorous and does an excellent job at spiraling the standards though out the year; however, as part of my research I needed to look at one standard at a time which prompted me to create my own pre and post test.
For my first inquiry, I used the following Common Core State Standard for 6th Grade math:
6.NS.3 - Fluently add, subtract, multiply and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation. The pre and post test for this inquiry can be found by clicking here.
For my first inquiry, I used the following Common Core State Standard for 6th Grade math:
6.NS.3 - Fluently add, subtract, multiply and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation. The pre and post test for this inquiry can be found by clicking here.
With an understanding that math; especially at the secondary level is more subjective than meets the eye, I also wanted to track student growth towards the standard by looking at more than just the right vs. wrong answer. I believe that many students may have a conceptual understanding of the content but still make a small error because of gaps in their foundation.
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To accommodate for this, I also created a rubric based on a 1-4 scale towards their comprehension of the standard. To use this rubric, I graded each question using this same scale. To read this rubric, you can break each section down like this:
- 4 - Exceeds the standard
- 3 - Meets the standard
- 2 - Standard nearly met
- 1 - Standard not met
- 0 - No progress toward standard