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This chapter consists of two sections. The first, by Mogens Niss, looks at assessment in a general setting, before discussing some possible detailed types of assessment. In section II John Pegg, Angel Gutiérrez & Pedro Huerta describe a type of assessment derived from research on the SOLO Taxonomy that extends the van Hiele “levels”.
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Niss, M., Pegg, J., Gutiérrez, A., Huerta, P. (1998). Assessment in Geometry. In: Mammana, C., Villani, V. (eds) Perspectives on the Teaching of Geometry for the 21st Century. New ICMI Study Series, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5226-6_9
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