Assessing Understanding

Journal Article | December 2004

Try using an assessment cycle to effectively probe students' understanding of scientific concepts. The diagnostic, formative, summative, and confirmatory assessment can be embedded into any unit of study.

"A" Is for Assessment

Journal Article | August 2004

Assessment strategies do not have to be complicated in order to inform both learning and teaching. Assessment strategies described in this article include student drawings, journal entries, lists, dramatizations,…

Science for All: Assess your coteaching chemistry through experience

Journal Article | June 2019

Strategies for increasing student engagement.

Guest Editorial: Formative Assessment in the Science Classroom: What It Is and What It Is Not

Journal Article | June 2019

An opinion column about formative assessment.

Formative Assessment Probes: Supporting Literacy Capacities of Speaking and Listening

Journal Article | July 2019

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment.

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It a Rock? Continuous Formative Assessment

Journal Article | March 2013

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses assessment related to Earth Science topics of rock formation and properties of matter.

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning

Journal Article | October 2013

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author explores how the formative assessment probe "Is It Melting?" was used to confront teachers with their own alternative…