Lola
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Re: Portland Problem Solving Scores Fall
Posted:
Sep 30, 2002 12:12 AM
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On Sun Sep 29 19:19:45 2002, Mark wrote Re. Portland Problem Solving
Scores Fall:
For all those interested: As I understand from my research, Portland
Public Schools adopted Investigations 3 years ago to boost studend
scores on Problem Solving. Test scores released in Oregon 2 weeks ago
show that the Problem Solving scores for fifth grades in Portland FELL
DRAMATICALLY! The assessment tests kids using performance based
assessment and NOT multiple choice. WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?
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Mark,
Before jumping to conclusions about the problem-solving curriculum I
would ask a few more questions. For example. Have the 5th grade
students been using the problem solving curriculum in early grades?
Or were teachers using the "old way"? Were all teachers using the
curriculum, or just a few? How was the program implemented? What
areas were the scores down in? Communication? Inference? Computation?
Measurement? Selecting a strategy? Mark, if you investigate further
you may find that blanket indictments of the curriculum may not be
correct. I am confused by your multiple choice comment. Do you mean
that you favor a multiple choice test for math? If so how does this
approach help a person learn to grocery shop, budget for a household
or buy a car intelligently? Finally, Mark please go back 10, 20, 30
or more years and look at student math scores and tell me we have not
made giant strides in reasoning,problem solving, and of course THE
ONLY IMPORTANT PART OF MATH, C O M P U T A T I O N since then with the
reform (standards based) curriculums.
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