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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…
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Assessing Student Understanding
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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…
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Customized Internet Assessments
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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…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning
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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…
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Embedding Formative Assessment Into the 5E Instructional Model
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue includes an illustrative example of how formative assessment probes and formative assessment classroom techniques can be embedded into a…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Made of Parts?: Scaffolding a Formative Assessment Probe
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores structure and function as it relates to animals and plants.