Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | June 2019

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.

Better Formative Assessment

Journal Article | February 2017

Making formative assessment more responsive to student needs.

Crystal Clear Assessment

Journal Article | October 2013

Techniques for rich, authentic asssessment are revealed through a polymer gel spheres project.

Simply Performance Assessment

Journal Article | October 2013

A fourth-grade lesson on simple machines integrates performance assessment tasks.

Assessing Scientific Inquiry

Journal Article | December 2007

Assessing student-led, open-ended scientific inquiry holds a unique problem for classroom teachers because of the diverse skills and content that emerge from student work. This article provides tangible strategies for…

Assessing Student Understanding

Journal Article | February 2004

Science education has moved from the traditional lecture-and-demonstration model toward a student inquiry model. Although science teachers know that inquiry teaching is desirable, they are frequently at a loss when it…

Customized Internet Assessments

Journal Article | April 2001

Online assessments, one area of Internet technology that educators are still trying to develop, can involve complicated programming beyond the reach of many instructors. This article describes a program that enables…