Exit with Expertise is an assessment motivated by conclusions in
No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by America's Education Schools that the bar for content knowledge of elementary teachers needs to move up by many notches. The assessment has 11 constructed response items and 20 selected response items. Feedback on how you have used the questions and the results would be welcome. Please contact
Julie Greenberg, Senior Policy Director at NCTQ, with any feedback.
Many of the selected response questions in Exit with Expertise use a design for
constructed response of numeric answers that allows their use for a wide range of open-ended questions (e.g., determine the fraction midway between 1/2 and 1/4) and could increase the reliability of machine-scoreable assessments.
You might also be interested in practice mathematics questions for the
elementary teacher licensing test that Massachusetts unveiled in March 2009. The mathematics section is scored separately and is much more challenging than questions found on other state licensing tests and the Praxis II.
