Resumen de Curriculum and Assessment

Leonor Santos, Jinfa Cai

• Curriculum and assessment have not been popular themes in PME conferences and proceedings. In the first Handbook of Research on the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Gutiérrez & Boero, 2006), there was neither a chapter on curriculum nor on assessment. This is very understandable given that PME has traditionally been focused on the “ psychology of mathematics education.

  ” Therefore, most of the chapters in the first handbook involved cognitive aspects. In recent years, however, there has been an increased number of PME presentations and papers on both curriculum and assessment. This phenomenon shows the wider recognition of the importance of curriculum and assessment in studying the psychology of mathematics education. In fact, researchers have recognized curriculum and assessment as an integral part of research related to the psychology of mathematics education.