[ALL-PKAL] PKAL/QuIRK Workshop Announcement:Quantitative Reasoning

[Project Kaleidoscope]

PKAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Quantifying Quantitative Reasoning in Undergraduate Education: 

Alternative Strategies for the Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning

Carleton College, Northfield MN

 

a workshop co-sponsored by Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) and the QuIRK
initiative

October 10-12, 2008

 

Application Deadline: August 1, 2008

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Quantitative reasoning clearly requires facility with a set of
mathematical skills. But it also demands the ability to apply these
skills in context. While long-existing standardized tests can easily
assess QR's basic skills, it is much more challenging to evaluate its
application in context. In "'Get Real!': Assessing for Quantitative
Literacy," Grant Wiggins points out "standardized conditions are
decontextualized by design." At its 2001 Forum on Quantitative Literacy,
the National Council on Education and the Disciplines concluded, "[QR]
is largely absent from our current systems of assessment and
accountability."

 

The QR community has been busy since the NCED report, developing various
means of QR assessment. We invite schools to send teams of 3 to 5 for a
3-day workshop to explore alternative QR assessment strategies that may
be applied in a broad range of institutions. Discussions of QR
assessment and program design will be led by a team of facilitators
<http://serc.carleton.edu/quirk/pkal_workshop08/facilitators.html>  with
extensive expertise in the area. In particular, participants will be
introduced to alternative QR assessment methods including: 

* An assessment of QR in student writing 

* A sophisticated standardized test that tests QR in contextualized case
studies 

* A QR assessment protocol that has been used by 210 institutions in 46
states allowing for cross-school comparison 

* Assessment tools that can be used at the program, course, and student
level

 

For more information or to submit an application, go to: 

http://serc.carleton.edu/quirk/pkal_workshop08/index.html

 

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