How is writing used as an assessment technique in math?
• Written or oral responses to questions can provide a great deal of insight into students’ understanding of ideas or concepts. This also gives them an opportunity to clarify and consolidate their understanding of a concept and to reflect on what they have learned and how they have learned it. • Writing can be used at the end of a class to provide immediate feedback regarding what the students learned during a class period. • Writing can be used at the beginning of a class to determine how much students recall about what they were doing during the last class(es). • Students could place writing samples in their portfolios.
