Here are a few of the more obvious rating oddities in the Summary of Instructional Analysis Rating. Providing Variety of Contexts, the curriculum receives a rating of 'good'. Providing Firsthand Experiences' in the same category receives a rating of 'satisfactory'. Look at the number of places where students gather their own data in explorations of real-world phenomena. Think about the discussion that occurs among students every day in this curriculum.
Students challenge each other repeatedly about understanding of the concepts.
Examine the number of questions in Discussion and Assignment exercises where students are asked to 'explain your reasoning' or 'justify your answer'. Assessing Student Progress in Mathematics seems to be another unlikely place for low ratings and yet the Summary Analysis reports only two 'satisfactory' ratings. Reexamine the Assignments and those problems where the Teacher Edition suggests particular problems as especially well suited to assessment. Those problems are generally built around an application and this is part of 'embedded assessment'. Certainly the Summary Assessment in the Student Edition is rich in 'assessing through applications'.