Assessment Criteria Cited, Perceived, and Used by Mathematics Teachers in Primary Education

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https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.26-3.1

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Educational assessment, teachers’ thinking, assessment criteria, blinded assessment, mathematics, elementary education

Abstract

Objective. This work mainly aims to compare the assessment criteria considered most relevant by Mathematics teachers in Elementary Education with those they actually use and the perception their students have. Method. To this effect, we interviewed 30 teachers and 120 students. Additionally, the teachers participated in a blinded assessment of one student’s exam based on the criteria discovery method. They were asked to grade a test involving several mathematical tasks which a student had previously solved. They could ask questions to the interviewer without seeing the document. Results. Based on the transcriptions of the interviews, a content analysis was conducted to categorize and compare the assessment criteria expressed (by the teachers), perceived (by the students), and those used (in the blind assessment). Discussion and conclusions. The results suggest that teachers consider mental arithmetic, comprehension, and, above all, mathematical reasoning as the most important criteria. However, most of their students do not have the same perception. Furthermore, a third of the teachers are not sufficiently aware of the assessment criteria they are, in fact, using. Finally, we discuss the influence of assessment in mathematics.

Author Biographies

Maria-João Marques-Oliveira, Agrupamento de Escolas da Lourinhã

Docente del 1er Ciclo de Educación Básica, Licenciada en Educación Especial, Maestra en Psicología Educativa y Doctora en Ciencias de la Educación, actualmente labora en el Departamento de Educación Especial del Servicio de Educación y Juventud de Macao.

Manuel Montanero, Universidad de Extremadura

Licenciado en Pedagogía y en Psicología y Doctor en Pedagogía, es Catedrático de Didáctica General de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de Extremadura (España) y coordinador del Grupo de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo de Extremadura (GIDEX), al que pertenecen más de una veintena de investigadores-doctores

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2022-06-28

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Assessment Criteria Cited, Perceived, and Used by Mathematics Teachers in Primary Education (M.-J. Marques-Oliveira & M. Montanero , Trans.). (2022). Revista Electrónica Educare, 26(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.26-3.1

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Assessment Criteria Cited, Perceived, and Used by Mathematics Teachers in Primary Education (M.-J. Marques-Oliveira & M. Montanero , Trans.). (2022). Revista Electrónica Educare, 26(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.26-3.1

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