Introduction This is the final installment of a three-part deep dive into a single assessment item the GRIP team designed to probe students’ knowledge of the student learning objectives (SLOs). Item 15301 was written for the purpose of investigating SLO 3, Secondary Geometry Understanding: Understand the ideas underlying the typical secondary geometry curriculum well enough to […]

Introduction Among the assessment items the GRIP team designed to probe students’ knowledge of the student learning objectives (SLOs), item 15301 was intended to target SLO 3, Secondary Geometry Understanding: Understand the ideas underlying the typical secondary geometry curriculum well enough to explain them to their own students and use them to inform their own teaching. Assessment […]

Introduction Recall that GeT assessment item 15301 asks: Mr. Gómez taught students the usual procedure for constructing a perpendicular bisector for a segment. Veronica asked Mr. Gómez to explain why the construction works, meaning how they can be sure that the line that is constructed is indeed perpendicular to the segment and passes through the midpoint. […]

Over the past year, the Teaching GeT working group proposed that one way to contribute to reducing the variability in outcomes in the preparation of secondary geometry teachers would be to formulate and steward a set of ten student learning objectives (SLOs) that could be utilized by instructors of GeT courses. We recognize that the […]

The assessment items we developed last spring can be a resource in our collective work stewarding the Student Learning Objectives (SLOs). One way to operationalize that possibility could be to revise the items with the goal of incorporating them into a test, like the MKT-G. In such a scenario, we could envision that at some […]