MDTP Webinar Series
MDTP Webinars support math educators to use the MDTP Assessment System during COVID-19. Each webinar features a 30-minute info-session on specified topics followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.
Links to videos for previously aired webinars are posted below.
Informing and Implementing an Equitable Course-enrollment Policy
The topics of this session include:
- Rationale and equity principles of SB 359 (California Mathematics Placement Act of 2015)
- Recommendations for using MDTP to inform next-course enrollment options attentive to equitable practices
- Statistical issues around setting cut scores and ranges (see documents below)
- To see video recording click here
The MDTP Assessment System: Why Use It and When?
The topics of this session include:
- Overview of the MDTP Assessment System
- Why and When to Use MDTP Assessments
- Examples of Reports Available After Testing
- Q & A
- To see video recording click here
A Guide to Setting Up and Using MDTP Remotely
The topics of this session include:
- Suggestions for how to administer MDTP diagnostic tests remotely
- How to set up testing (add classes, rosters, and assign tests)
- Q & A
- To see video recording click here
Accessing, Interpreting and Using MDTP Results Formatively
The topics of this session include:
- Accessing the summary reports to learn about cohort results
- Analyzing items to learn how to identify students’ mathematical strengths, unfinished learning and misconceptions, and gaps of content instruction
- Analyzing distractors to learn how to use student thinking in lesson design and unit planning
- Video for September 23 - Middle School Emphasis recording
- Video for September 24 - High School Emphasis recording
Using MDTP Results to Enact Re-engagement Strategies
The topics of this session include:
- Analyzing distractors to identify common misconceptions
- Unpacking the mathematics needed to address the misconception
- Using strategies to create and enact tasks that re-engage students to address the misconception and bridge to current content
- Video for September 29 - Middle School Emphasis recording
- Video September 30 - High School Emphasis recording
Strategies for Using MDTP Written Response Items
The topics of this session include:
- Access and overview of MDTP Written Response Items (WRIs)
- Enact student-centered engagement strategies to illuminate student thinking, re-engage to target misconceptions, and develop deeper conceptual understanding
- Support students to use MDTP WRI Rubrics formatively
- To see video recording click here
Using MDTP Diagnostic Data and Written Response Items to Support Students' Unfinished Learning
The topics of this session include:
- Explore how MDTP diagnostic distractors may indicate unfinished learning and potential gaps of content learning
- Learn how to link these results to create learning experiences using MDTP WRIs to support unfinished learning
- To see video recording click here
