JoinPutting Assessment to the Test: Tips for designing standards-based tests
During the last decade significant changes occurred in the way we teach and assess learning. Both the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and the suggestions from Benchmarks from Scientific Literacy (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993) stressed the need for higher order teaching and assessment. This article gives science teachers a basis for an assessment system that includes appropriate, standards-based, paper-and-pencil tests.