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• FVU-math
• Visitation-test

EMMA Study Visit Copenhagen 9 12 May 2007
Pernille Pind email pernille_at_pernillepind.dk hj
emmeside www.pernillepind.dk
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• Organization
• Matematiske aktiviteter I/S
• Develop framework and test questions
• Test the test
• Write instructions on the use of the test
• Project group under Matematiske aktiviteter
• 3 FVU-teachers, all with experience from
  development of final FVU-math-test
• _at_ventures
• IT-implementation
• Statistics

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• Conditions from ministry
• Test compulsory
• Part of guidance not decisive
• Both paper and computer versions
• Test for
• qualifications below requirement for FVU-math
• qualifications above FVU-math
• qualifications in Danish language relevant for
  FVU-math
• not test for level of FVU-math
• Short test, preferably 15 minuts

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• Our basic point of view
• FVU-math is FVU-math not some kind of reduced
  school math
• test relevant for FVU-math
• show what FVU-math is
• You cant test for everything in 15 minutes

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• Our decisions
• Two parts
• Language/concepts used in FVU-math
• Numbers and calculations
• Fundamental qualifications
• FVU-math level 2 questions
• Very easy to approach
• all test-questions of same test-type simple
  multiple choice
• text should be read aloud
• calculator permitted
• 15 minutes not enough, 30 minutes more realistic

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Key-question To the FVU-teachers in the project
group Would you refer to this question in an
attempt to help a student with an other question?
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• Guidelines for level determination
• Curriculum for FVU-math level 1
• Lots of other tests of basic mathematics
• MG, FOM, Olav Lunde, KIM, Norway's national
  tests, FVU-math level-placement-test, TFV
  Talprøve for Voksne
• British numeracy level system form QCA
  (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority)

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• Content of numbers and calculations
• natural numbers only
• text-problems in all four operations
• translation from text to symbolic expression
  (addition and subtraction)
• simple proportions (halving and doubling)
• place value
• ordering
• reading scales
• common facts

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• No questions in pure algebraic expressions
• No 237___
• I have a personal antipathy against this type of
  math. I believe that the only reason for learning
  this language is because its the language of the
  calculator.
• But I tried to be open minded!
• The project group (chosen be me ?) responded
• Why would we want them?
• They send the wrong signal.
• Do they have any meaning with a calculator?

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• The documents
• In the FVU-math final tests the test-questions
  are very true to authentic documents. In the test
  we have no authentic documents, because
• We considered the reading of authentic documents
  to difficult. It is actually what the teaching
  and learning in FVU is mostly about. So it is not
  something we expect the students to be able to in
  advance.
• Copy-right for on-line use is a jungle! In the
  FVU-math level 2 questions we have fabricated
  documents similar to the real ones.
• In the part with fundamental numbers and
  calculations we support the question with a
  photo.
• In the language/concept part we use drawings. I
  would have preferred photos, but it is easier to
  make small drawings focused on certain concepts
  than small photos.

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• Review of the test
• _at_ventures are experienced test-makers. They
  reviewed
• Qualitative testing on ca. 30 people by the
  project group.
• Review by specialist in language Anna Gellert
  KBH University
• Review by FVU-math specialist Lene Østergaard
  Johansen, Aalborg University.

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• Testing the test
• 300 people
• Itemanalysis of testresults
• The 300 people
• Should be potential FVU-math students equally
  distrubeted geographically, on different ages,
  both sexes an so on.
• But I found that impossible. First of all to find
  and identify 300 potential FVU-maths students.
  And then ask them for their time!
• The test-takers are then
• FVU-math students from both levels
• Students from schools for teaching adults with
  special needs.
• Students in open math and reading labs at
  vocational schools
• People at job-guidance interviews

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Test-question examples

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