Written by the Balanced Assessment team and published by Dale Seymour Publications. The books are sold separately. Balanced Assessment for the Mathematics Curriculum is an NSF funded project conducted by four university departments at Michigan State, Berkeley, Harvard and the Shell Centre.
Tasks are at the heart of standards-based reform.
A much broader range of tasks is needed for performance assessment - mainly rich, substantial tasks close to those which students need to be able to tackle, if they are to be effective in their everyday life and work. These books are collections of tasks developed by the project together with marking schemes and commentaries. Some examples of the tasks appear on the MARS website. Shell Centre for Mathematical Education Publications Limited.