About the Design Your Own (DYO) Periodic Assessments
Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) instituted a Period Assessment Program, which requires schools to administer interim and formative assessments in mathematics and English Language Arts in all grades. Schools have the option to use NYCDOE-provided periodic assessments or to create and implement Design Your Own (DYO) assessments.
About this Project
NCREST collaborated with seven elementary schools in the NYCDOE Empowerment Network 3 on a Practice Area Network 3 (PAN3) research study to understand how teacher participation in the Network’s Network 3 DYO formative assessment professional learning community influences or impacts their students’ mathematical thinking. The PAN3 study examined teacher participation in the PAN3 Formative Assessment/Instruction Cycle in Math and its impact on:
- the design, development, administration and analysis of DYO assessments in math.
- teacher understanding of formative data on students’ mathematical thinking and their instructional implications.
- teacher use of formative data on students’ mathematical thinking to plan math instruction.
- teacher classroom practices in math instruction.
- the development of third grade students’ mathematical thinking.