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Use performance tasks for classroom instruction and assessment
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Use performance tasks for classroom instruction and assessment
Summary
This strategy focuses on providing teachers with a set of resources, experiences, and tools that can broaden the range of tasks they use to give students opportunities to show what they know and what they can do. The resources provide guidance to teachers on using and managing the assessments in their own classrooms. Additionally, they provide analyses of student work to help guide teachers� thinking about their own students� understandings. This strategy uses high-quality tasks to exemplify the expectations in 
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
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Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
The "download extended report" gives a full description of this strategy.
Applicable tools
Classroom teaching materials, such as the standards-based mathematics curricula that were developed with NSF-support, contain rich problems and tasks.
standards-based mathematics curricula that were developed with NSF-support, contain rich problems and tasks.
Balanced Assessment: classroom packages
provide assessment tasks for Grades 3-12, aligned with Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, with some associated classroom materials.
Balanced Assessment in Mathematics: the professional development series
This workshop series is a program of professional development that takes assessment as its starting point.
Balanced Assessment in Mathematics: the tests
These practice tests, currently for Grades 3-10, are aligned with Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (PSSM). Each test includes 5-6 short tasks that may be used to prepare students for high-stakes assessments and point scoring guides. The practice tests are published by CTB/McGraw-Hill.
