Susan Goldman

Progress toward improving the quality of mathematics teaching and learning has been slow despite the introduction of standards-based curricula, such as Everyday Mathematics, and efforts to support teachers' implementation of reform-based classroom practices. Embedded assessments are considered to be a key element of reform-based curricula with the goal of supporting more effective instructional practices such as making students' thinking visible and providing opportunities for feedback. Howe...

The National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction has a core goal of redesigning components of a widely-used middle school mathematics curriculum-Connected Mathematics Project (CMP), and evaluating the efficacy of the redesigned curriculum materials.

Project READI (Reading, Evidence, and Argumentation in Disciplinary Instruction) defines reading for understanding in adolescence as the ability to engage in evidence-based argumentation across multiple texts and supports its learning in three disciplines: history, science, and English literature. Disciplinary literacy involves complex critical analysis processes as well as close attention to text. The research team proposes a model that captures these processes while attending to the psycho...

In this project, the researchers proposed to develop a set of assessments that could diagnose the strategies and skills required for comprehension of multiple texts. The purpose of this assessment was to identify what causes readers to struggle with this complex but important task. In the early 2000s, most comprehension research examined how students derive meaning from a single text, so there was a need to better understand how students make meaning as they read across multiple texts and fo...