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Formative Assessment Probes: Seeds in a Bag

Science and Children—November 2014

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the formative assessment probe is designed to uncover students' use of a crosscutting concept—cause and effect—related to germination of a seed.

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