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#794 – Using Key Conceptual Ideas to Improve Teacher Use of Formative Assessment Data
Terry P. Vendlinski and Julia Phelan
Terry P. Vendlinski and Julia Phelan
CRESST Report 794, May 2011 
Summary
Summary
This paper reports on the outcomes achieved from an innovative professional development program, POWERSOURCE©, that helps teachers apply key foundational concepts and formative assessment to math content studied in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. The authors found significant gains from students' pretests to students' posttests, attributed to POWERSOURCE©. The findings suggest that the gains were associated with changes in teacher thinking and that such change may be easier for more experienced math teachers in earlier rather than later middle school grades.
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