Chapter 4 - Assessment

            Of the many ways Reys discusses how to gather evidence as to the abilities, dispositions, and interests of the kids in your class such as observation, questioning, interviewing, and many more, self-assessments stood out to me.   This is something I did not know of because I do not recall using this in the past.  The text suggests that students are the best assessors of their own work.  When the students are given the responsibility of justifying their own thinking process, they tend to be more alert because once again, that responsibility is their own.  The text gives an example of this in action: ask your student how he or she came across arriving to the answer to the problem as he/she did.  This method can similarly be used to assess the student as far as how they feel about mathematics – to once again aid the instructor to better understand the student and ultimately help the student better in return.