ATMNE 2024 (Using Formative Assessment to Improvse Access to Grade Level Content)

Using Formative Assessment to Improve Access to Grade Level Content
Louisa Connaughton & Jenna Laib
ATMNE
Nashua, NH
October 25, 2024

Slides

Interview Protocols

• Marilyn Burns’ Listening to Learn (Heinemann)
  • 10 Interviews
  • Topics cover numerical reasoning, addition and subtraction (within 10, 20, 100, and 1000), multiplication and division (foundations + extending), fractions, and decimals
• Michael T. Battista’s Cognition Based Assessment and Teaching series (Heinemann)
  • Series of 6 books (Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Fractions, Geometric Shapes, Geometric Measurement)
  • Involve paper and pencil
• Forefront Education
• New Zealand Numeracy Project Assessment Resources (NZNP)
  • JAM (Junior Assessment of Mathematics)
  • GloSS (Global Strategy Stages)
  • IKAN (Individual Knowledge Assessment of Number)
  • Diagnostic Interview
• Kathy Richardson’s Assessing Math Concepts (Math Perspectives)
  • 9 Interviews
  • Topics cover counting objects, changing numbers, more or less, number arrangements, decomposing numbers, and foundations of place value, and two-digit addition and subtraction
• Kendra Lomax’s CGI interview

Learning Trajectories

Carpenter, T., Fennema, E., Franke, M., L. Levi, and S. Empson (2014). Children’s Mathematics, Second Edition: Cognitively Guided Instruction. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

More about Clinical Interviews

Blog Posts

• Marilyn Burns
  • “How I Got Hooked on One-on-One Math Interviews” (May 21, 2021)
  • “What was Nathan thinking?” (February 22, 2022)
  • “What was Rebecca thinking?” (April 10, 2022)
  • “What was Adrian thinking?“ (February 19, 2023)
• Jenna Laib
  • “Presuming Competence: Using Clinical Interviews to Support Classroom Instruction” )November 13, 2018)
  • “What does it mean to be “struggling” in math class? (Eduardo’s Story)” (February 5, 2019)
  • “Students Surprise Us: Interviews with Juliet” (June 20, 2019)
  • “I Don’t Speak Russian, But…” (December 13, 2022)
    “How We Listen: Astrid’s Thinking about 5 x 6” (March 27, 2023)
  • “Listening to Understand: Visualizing Adrian’s Thinking about Comparing Fractions” (February 25, 2023)

Articles

• Genich, Hannah. “Using Clinical Interviews to Uncover Students’ Place Value Misconceptions.” The Robertson Program. August 29, 2022.
• Placa, Nicora. “Learn to Listen: Use Student Interviews to Drive Professional Learning.” The Learning Professional. February 2020.
• Placa, Nicora. Six Tools for Collaborative Coaching. Stenhouse: July 2023.

Research

• Heng, Mary Anne and Akhila Sudarshan. ““Bigger number means you plus!”—Teachers learning to use clinical interviews to understand students’ mathematical thinking.” Educational Studies in Mathematics 83 (2013): 471-485.

• Lee, Mi Yeon. “The Potential Relationship Between Clinical Interview Skills and Mathematics Teacher Noticing: an Exploratory Study.” International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 19 (2020): 793 – 814.

• Lewis, Katherine E. and Marie B. Fisher. “Clinical Interviews: Assessing and Designing Mathematics Instruction for Students With Disabilities.” Intervention in School and Clinic 53 (2018): 283 – 291.