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Teacher to Teacher: Written Assessment in Three Dimensions
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. This month’s column will illustrate how you can use the NGSS evidence statements to create a summative assessment, focusing on the question: What are the…
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Research and Teaching: Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Learning
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This study investigated the interaction of disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning in a team-taught, first-year, interdisciplinary sustainability course. We surveyed (pre/post) both STEM (science, technology,…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Big and Small Seeds
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue links formative assessment probes to the scientific practices.
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Assessing Student Presentations From Three Perspectives
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Analyzing student presentations from three perspectives—expert, peer, and self—provides extended feedback and opportunities to learn. All three of these are helpful and serve different purposes. The expert (teacher)…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Monitoring and assessing student learning
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An effective teacher never leaves a key part of a lesson without checking to make sure there is an appropriate level of mastery before moving on to the next lesson segment. Teachers must monitor and assess student…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Ice Cubes in a Bag
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover children's ideas about open and closed systems.
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Science 2.0: Formative Assessment With Online Tools
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses tools that provide the data teachers need to monitor and adjust their teaching according to current student knowledge.
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Assessment: Can It Lead to a Better Course Design?
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Biology faculty at one college took the initiative to develop its own assessment tool for an introductory biology course. The goal was to evaluate student achievement in the course and detect methods for improving the…
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Assessment in Online Learning—It's a Matter of Time
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This article reviews how students in an online Earth and Space Science course interact with various online assessments.
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Assessing Students' Arguments: How Strong Are Their Justifications?
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Present arguments about whether or not a dam should be built that would affect an indigenous people.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Talking About Shadows
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue highlights shadow investigations that provide an ideal context for children to collect and analyze data used to recognize and explain…
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