To teach for conceptual understanding requires assessing for conceptual understanding. The principles that guide teaching for understanding must be the same principles that should guide assessment. What are some of
From whole numbers to integers – so many things to “unlearn”
A lot of online resources on integers are about operations on integers especially addition and subtraction. Most of these resources show visual representations of integer operations. These representations are almost
Understanding by Design, one more go
I have so far written three posts about understanding by design. The first is about my issues about DepEd’s adoption of understanding by design (UbD), the second is about the
Algebra test items: Trigonometric Functions
This is my third post on constructing test items based on TIMSS Assessment Framework. My first set of examples is about assessing understanding of zeros of polynomial function and the second