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Cooperative Learning and Assessment
Cooperative learning in its simplest sense is two or more students working together on an assignment. In an expanded definition, cooperative learning...
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Writing, as we all know, is an integral part of any discipline. And, because of the important role that writing up lab reports and research plays in ...
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Adapting Labs and Troubleshooting
A great deal of information is available on how children learn—brain research, multiple intelligence aspects, concrete versus abstract thinking, env...
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One common misconception in the middle school science classroom is that students magically will know how to do many of the seemingly easy tasks teache...
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One of the most challenging activities in the middle school science lab is taking measurements. A simple ruler can send students into a questioning m...
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This section includes resources that any new teacher would want to have at their fingertips. It offers reproducible lists, quizzes, and forms. These ...
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This section offers practical resources that will be quite valuable during those first few months of teaching middle school science. Here you will fi...
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The Importance of Everyday Assessment
Assessment for learning is set in the context of conflicts and synergies with the other purposes of assessments. The core ideas are that it is charact...
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As a context for thinking about the claims made in this book, some of the circumstances that have influenced the demand for and character of assessmen...
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Learning Through Assessment: Assessment for Learning in the Science Classroom
This chapter presents an extended example from a middle school science classroom of what assessment that supports learning looks like. In the example,...
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Examining student work is an essential aspect of teaching, yet it is easy to miss opportunities to learn about how students are interpreting—or misi...
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This chapter provides an overview of frameworks that teachers can use to conduct assessments of students’ engagement in scientific inquiry. The auth...
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Using Questioning to Assess and Foster Student Thinking
Questioning can be used to probe for understanding, to initiate inquiry, and to promote development of understanding. The results from questioning, li...
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Involving Students in Assessment
While much of the responsibility for classroom assessment lies with teachers, students also play an important role in meaningful assessment activity. ...
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Reporting Progress to Parents and Others: Beyond Grades
As science education moves increasingly in the direction of teaching to standards, teachers call for classroom assessment techniques that provide a ri...