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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.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Habitat Change: Formative Assessment of a Cautionary Word
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses word usage and learning about habitat.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Constructing Cl-Ev-R Explanations to Formative Assessment Probes
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment classroom technique C-E-O-SE.
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How Does Student Performance on Formative Assessments Relate to Learning Assessed by Exams?
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A retrospective analysis examines the relationships between formative assessments and exam grades in two undergraduate geoscience courses. Pair and group-work grades correlate weakly with individual exam grades. Exam…
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Assessment in the Palm of Your Hand
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Project WHIRL, a three-year-grant from the National Science Foundation, enabled researchers from SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learning to collaborate with fourth- through ninth-grade teachers to create…
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Formative Assessment Probes: With a Purpose
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author uses the stages of the SAIL Cycle to reflect upon and share some of the ways the probes published in Science and Children (…
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Beyond Paper and Pencil Assessments
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Most paper-and-pencil assessments provide adequate insight into students’ ability and can help effectively guide instruction. A well-designed performance-based assessment propels a science program beyond this level of…
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Perspectives: Assessing for Science Learning
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Often the word assessment conjures up the notion of tests or quizzes that occur at the end of a lesson or a unit. These summative assessments take place when an instructional sequence is completed, providing a summary…
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Teaching and Assessing the Nature of Science
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Learn how to effectively incorporate the nature of science in your classroom. Nature of science issues should be addressed as questions, which encourages both teachers and students to think more deeply about the context…
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