Work Samples

Work samples include projects, written assignments, and other student products that the teacher collects and evaluates. Scoring, which involves judgement, and analyzing the work make it possible to learn about student performance.

Possible work samples

problems students have solved
charts students have constructed
journal entries
written passages in which students explain the process by which they solved a problem, how to approach a problem, and/or how a problem is related to other activities in mathematics
students' evaluation of "error patterns" in problems
problems students have constructed themselves.