Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book includes a summary of the recommendations of a working conference on classroom assessment in mathematics held in May 1997. The book also includes all of the working papers prepared for that conference. The recommendations are directed to the research community, directors of teacher enhancement projects, state education agencies, regional and local staff development projects, and institutions of higher education. This conference brought together researchers, acknowledged experts in the field of assessment, and practitioners to focus on an important component of the educational process, namely quality classroom assessment.