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Guest Editorial: The Changing Landscape of Assessment
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An opinion piece about inquiry assessment.
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Creating Science Assessments That Support Inquiry
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This article discusses the resources available for teachers to apply higher-level thinking and cognitive complexity to their instruction and assessments.
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Methods and Strategies: The Reflective Assessment Technique
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Teachers often rely on student questions, their observations of students at work, and their own intuition to monitor how well students are learning. However, the authors found that teachers learn more about their…
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Science Sampler: A simple assessment solution
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This formative-assessment program is based on two key ideas about assessment. First, thoughtful educators use assessment results to revise their instructional approaches so that assessment is no longer a product, but a…
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Assessing Students’ Ideas About Plants
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This article contains an interview protocol that will help you gather information about your elementary students’ ideas related to plants. By implementing the protocol, you will be able to discover what kinds of…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Too much assessment
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Regardless of the context, the intent and meaning of “assessment” has remained the same: to determine what students know before a lesson starts, to monitor if they are “getting it” as the lesson unfolds, and to measure…
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Cartoons—An Alternative Learning Assessment
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In order to fully understand student learning, we science teachers need to know the ideas that students bring into the classroom. Plus, good assessment calls for ongoing evaluation of students’ progress and difficulties…
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Scientific Journals: A Creative Assessment Tool
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The typical use of science notebooks is for students to record information as they complete an investigation, writing down their procedure, observations, data, results, graphs, and any other factual information…
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Teacher's Toolkit: Two-tiered assessment
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Developing good instruments that can be used to assess what students really know about scientific content is one of the most difficult tasks facing teachers in middle school classrooms today. However, two-tiered tests…
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Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Probes
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Formative assessment probes can be effective tools to help teachers build a bridge between students’ initial ideas and scientific ones. In this article, the authors describe how using two formative assessment probes can…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Seeing the Light
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses students' preconceptions related to the reflection of light.
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Assessment <em>for</em> Learning
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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.…
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Formative Assessment Probes: The Mitten Problem
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue, the theory of "immaculate insulation" is prevalent among students. This formative assessment probe will help students overcome this…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Where Are the Stars?
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author explores children's knowledge of where the stars are in relation to the Earth and Moon.
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As teachers make the transition to inquiry-centered science, they discover a need for new assessments. In response to this need, a group of 125 elementary teachers embarked on a three-year investigation of science…
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