Home > Journals > GAMTE Proceedings > Vol. 4 > Iss. 1
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Math 2008 is an Area F course for early childhood majors in the University System of Georgia. The course covers basic skills that pre-service teachers will most likely be teaching in their career. At Georgia Southern University, many students in the course do not possess or have forgotten these basic skills. In Fall 2009, a basic skills test was implemented for Math 2008. Students must earn a score of 90 or higher on the test in order to pass the course. The test not only serves to let students know their areas of weakness, but also informs the instructor’s teaching. After the instructors implemented the skills test in this course, they found that most students started to take the material seriously, understand their weaknesses, and make an effort to learn. Also, the instructors are more aware of major gaps in the students’ understanding of number sense and can focus instruction on those areas. The informal results of three instructors' experiences are described in this article.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Lanier, Susie M.; Taylor, Sharon; and Saye, Donna B.
(2010)
"Basic Skills Testing in Math 2008,"
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
DOI: 10.20429/gamte.2010.040105
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gamte-proceedings/vol4/iss1/5