Hi Alicia,
Our school has adopted the Touch Math Curriculum which uses "touch points"
as a tool for learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Our teachers are concerned that this curriculum may be misunderstood and
that the students would be considered using prompts. The "touch points"
are circles on the numbers that students learn to "touch". It is a
strategy for teaching the concepts. I have advised that teachers to write
on the worksheet; this is an approved math curriculum to avoid any
misunderstanding. Would you please comment so I can advise my teachers.
Thank you very much.
Kathy
Good Morning Kathy,
Thank you for your email. One of the things we stressed in adminsitration training was that teachers should annotate anything that may require additional information for a scorer to understand what took place during the assessment activity. This sounds like the perfect place to implement this recommendation. Perhaps it would be possible for the instructional teams to develop a generic note to include in each datafolio's math section explaining the curriculum and how the tasks took place.
Please keep in mind that if it appears that anything was done beyond the initial instructions for the task, that improves the liklihood of a correct response could impact the student's level of independence. Also, if any accomodation or administration practice (i.e. this new curriculum) changes the context of what's being assessed, that could also impact the student's scores.
Please let us know if you have any other questions, best regards,
Alicia Cuttle
Measured Progress
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