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Assessing Science Knowledge: Seeing More Through the Formative Assessment Lens
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, the authors focus on classroom assessment practice, with emphasis placed on embedded diagnostic assessment. Embedded assessment activities require teachers and students to rethink their responsibilities…
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Developing a Classroom Assessment Rubric
Journal Article |
The development and implementation of varied assessment practices is a major focus in higher education. Assessment benefits both students and teachers; it informs teachers about students’ learning and misconceptions,…
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Science Assessments as a Learning Opportunity
Journal Article |
Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments support learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide…
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Formative Assessment for Equitable Learning
Journal Article |
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What Can You Do with 77 Formative Assessment Probes Columns?
Journal Article |
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Linking Formative Assessment Probes to the Explore-Before-Explain Instructional Sequence
Journal Article |
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The Feedback Loop: Using Formative Assessment Data for Science Teaching and Learning
NSTA Press Book |
What really helps your students learn science: Labs? Group work? Certain types of problems or test questions? Something you never even thought about? Find out with data that go way beyond what standardized test scores…
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Astronomy: 45 New Formative Assessment Probes
NSTA Press Book |
What do your students know—or think they know—about what causes night and day, why days are shorter in winter, and how to tell a planet from a star? Find out with this book on astronomy, the latest in NSTA’s popular…
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Assessment Linked To Science Learning Goals: Probing Student Thinking Through Assessment
Book Chapter |
The focus of this chapter is on how to design science assessment items that are linked to the content standards in Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards. This chapter describes (1…
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Assessing Science as Inquiry in the Classroom
Book Chapter |
Assessments of inquiry should align with what we know about learning and should be balanced and authentic. That is, they should include all the important features of inquiry, not just those easy to assess. This approach…
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How Assessment and Testing Developed
Book Chapter |
The United States has approximately 55 million students in grades K–12. On average, teachers administer 100 teacher-generated tests per school year, which translates into America’s students taking approximately 550…
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The Importance of Aligning Teaching and Assessment
Book Chapter |
This chapter focuses on the relation that is desirable between assessment and teaching activities in order to keep coherence with teaching goals and help all students to understand this coherence. The PISA 2006…
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Developing Assessment Performance Indicators
Book Chapter |
The goal of assessment is to judge how well a student has learned. This information has a range of uses but is mainly used to improve student learning or for the accreditation of student performance. This chapter is the…