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Evolving Ideas: Assessment in an Evolution Course
As science instruction moves from lectures that emphasize lists of facts to more student-centered approaches that emphasize knowledge generation and j...
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Integrating an Assessment Plan Into A K—12/ University Engineering Partnership
A comprehensive assessment plan is a valuable component of a university’s K—12 outreach effort. The K—12 Engineering Outreach Initiative has int...
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Varying Instructional Methods and Assessment of Students in High School Chemistry
New content standards call for the implementation of new and varied pedagogical interventions and instructional techniques. An experimental project in...
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Performance Assessment Tasks as a Stimulus for Collaboration Among Preservice and Inservice Teachers
The Performance Assessment project was a collaboration initiated by a university team of instructors and a local school district in which inservice an...
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Assessment in Support of Contextually Authentic Inquiry
If research into the assessment of science learning is going to make a difference for teachers, it must be applicable to the realities of K—12 class...
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Helping Students Understand the Minds-On Side of Learning Science
This collaboration between a fourth-grade teacher and university researcher resulted in the development of the Cognitive Strategies Inventory, an asse...
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Revised Views of Classroom Assessment
The Classroom Assessment Project to Improve Teaching and Learning (CAPITAL), a collaborative research initiative between Stanford University and middl...
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Moving Beyond Grades and Scores: Reconsidering Assessment Feedback
Many teachers are concerned about providing feedback to students in ways that support student learning. Five middle school teachers, part of the Class...
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Mind Mapping as a Flexible Assessment Tool
Mind mapping, a visual tool to improve note taking, foster creativity, organize thinking, and develop ideas and concepts, was the focus of this resear...
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Developing Assessment Items: A How-to Guide
Many current high-stakes accountability measures take the form of traditional test items. While traditional forms of assessment may not be the best me...
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Assessment in Support of Conceptual Understanding and Student Motivation to Learn Science
Classroom-based assessment strategies may influence the development of conceptual understanding and motivational beliefs among elementary learners in ...
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“Adaptive inquiry” is the product of the synergistic relationship between what a student brings to the classroom, the teacher’s ability to shape...
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Science Standards Influence Classroom Assessment Practices
School districts and individual schools must place a premium on linking classroom instruction, science content standards, and classroom assessment. In...
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Usable Assessments for Teaching Science Content and Inquiry Standards
This chapter reports on an approach to developing middle school science assessments using a learning-goals-driven design model. The design process for...
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Using Rubrics to Foster Meaningful Learning
Since its inception in the mid-1980s, the Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP) at the Lawrence Hall of Science (University of Ca...