MesiMatica
Leading team
Project members
Project Coordination:
- Dr. Michal Ayalon (2015-2016)
- Dr. Naomi Robinson (2017-2021)
PD Coordinataion:
Mathematics consultant:
Development and PD:
- Ayelet Gottlieb
- Dr. Nurit Hadas
- Chaya Menucha Farber
- Dr. Alex Friedlander
- Naama Tal
- Omri Nave
- Zippora Resnick
- Orna Shoam-Choen
- Ludmila Shpil
- Alina Speisky
- Reut Parasha
Summary
The MesiMatica project centers on developing research-, theory- and practice-based formative assessment materials that attend to three overarching principles associated with formative assessment: (1) eliciting evidence of student learning, (2) interpreting evidence of student learning, and (3) acting on evidence of student learning. The MesiMatica materials are designed in the form of a series of several dozens of formative assessment resource files in the domains of algebra, geometry and analysis, available free of charge on the MesiMatica website (in Hebrew). The development of the files follows principles of design research. It is being carried out by a team of experienced secondary-school teachers, expert curriculum developers, researchers in mathematics education, and a mathematician. The MesiMatica files are designed to assess mathematics that is important and worth knowing, significant in the secondary-school mathematics curriculum, and for which student difficulties are known from research and practice. Thus, in line with current views of classroom assessment, the materials attend to mathematics content, as well as to mathematical practices, processes, proficiencies, and competencies, focusing on aspects of problem solving, modeling, and reasoning.