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Technology Supporting Student Self-Assessment in the Field of Functions—A Design-Based Research Study

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Technology in Mathematics Teaching

Part of the book series: Mathematics Education in the Digital Era ((MEDE,volume 13))

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The focus of this chapter is the development of an electronic tool for formative self-assessment of functional thinking (SAFE) in a design-based research study. The digital tool aims to allow students to self-assess their work, rather than having technology evaluate their answers. Thus, the SAFE tool provides learners with a list of criteria against which they can check their solutions to an open assessment task, in this case, one which requires the learner to draw a graph based on a given situation. Two case studies in form of task-based interviews with sixteen-year-old students are described. The analysis leads to the reconstruction of the learners’ formative assessment processes by using a theoretical framework developed in the EU-project FaSMEd. The results show which formative assessment strategies students actively use when working with the self-assessment tool and which functionalities of the technology support the process.

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Ruchniewicz, H., Barzel, B. (2019). Technology Supporting Student Self-Assessment in the Field of Functions—A Design-Based Research Study. In: Aldon, G., Trgalová, J. (eds) Technology in Mathematics Teaching. Mathematics Education in the Digital Era, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19741-4_3

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