Month/Year of Graduation

5-2023

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Department

Teacher Education

First Advisor

Dr. Saundra L Shillingstad

Abstract

This capstone project reports the differentiated instructional strategies implemented throughout a math unit in a first-grade classroom. The capstone will report the effectiveness of two instructional strategies and two assessment methods that were integrated into a math unit that focused on students’ understanding of story problems with a missing addend or subtrahend. The math unit had 13 lessons taught over four weeks between the pre- and post-assessment. Based on student data, students’ understanding and performance increased throughout this unit by using a variety of differentiated instructional strategies and assessment methods. In this capstone, I will report what the instructional strategies and assessment methods consisted of and the effect they had on student learning. I collected and analyzed the pre- and post-assessment data and found that nonlinguistic representations, providing feedback, exit tickets, and questioning are effective instructional strategies and assessment methods for increasing student learning.

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