Using NAEP Items to Extend Teachers' Knowledge of Proportional Reasoning

The session will describe the activities of a current NSF project that developed and implemented a set of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) learning modules for pre-service Middle Grades mathematics teachers. The goals were to help participants: Develop the necessary content knowledge to solve proportional reasoning problems; Understand students’ mathematical thinking by analyzing their work on NAEP tasks; and Promote understanding of how NAEP tasks can be used to assess students’ understanding of proportionality. The presentation will include: an overview of the modules; summary of the results; discussion of student; and, summary of the lessons learned from this implementation.

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