All The Science Teacher resources

Journal Article

Rubrics are learning tools for students and teachers. They can be used to clarify learning goals, provide feedback, and improve critical thinking. Simply using a rubric to score student work, however, is not enough to achieve learning gains (NRC 2001...

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Career of the Month: An Interview With Herpetologist Robert Drewes

For the last decade, herpetologist Robert Drewes has documented the biodiversity of São Tomé and Príncipe, two remote islands off the west coast of Africa. These islands are unique for the number of species that live there and only there—many ex...

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Idea Bank: Ask the Experts

Want to learn something new about your teaching? Or discover what’s really working in your classroom? Ask the experts! No, not teachers or administrators, the real experts: your students. By the time they reach high school, students have logged ove...

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Editor’s Corner: Assessment—Asking the Big Questions

Assessment is often synonymous with measurement. We use summative assessments to determine if and where a student will go to college, how much funding a state will receive, whether teachers will stay or be fired, and where the United States ranks in ...

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Assessment <em>for</em> Learning

Due to the student-centered nature of problem-based learning (PBL) and project-based science (PBS), it is easy for teachers not to provide students with adequate feedback or enough support to promote critical thinking. However, research has shown tha...