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Using Natural History Interpretation as an Authentic Assessment Tool
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Natural history interpretation offers college science instructors an educationally challenging alternative or complement to traditional evaluation methods, such as multiple-choice testing. Because it asks students to…
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A Novel Instrument for Assessing Students' Critical Thinking Abilities
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In this article the authors describe the Assessment of Critical Thinking Ability survey and its preliminary application to assess the critical thinking skills of undergraduate students, graduate students, and…
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Assessing General Education Science Courses: A Portfolio Approach
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The work presented in this article represents one in-depth example of the integration of portfolio assessment into the standard assessment practices of a general education course for nonscience majors.
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The Ozone Show: Using a talk show format as an authentic assessment
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Instructors are constantly searching for more authentic ways of assessing student work. Authentic assessments model activities students might perform in the outside world. As a concluding activity of a unit on the hole…
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Teacher’s Toolkit: Strategies for the meaningful evaluation of multiple-choice assessments
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Too many multiple-choice tests are administered without an evaluative component. Teachers often return student assessments or Scantron cards—computerized bubble forms—without review, assuming that the printing of the…
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Putting Assessment to the Test: Tips for designing standards-based tests
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During the last decade significant changes occurred in the way we teach and assess learning. Both the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and the suggestions from Benchmarks from…
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This Isn’t English Class! Using Writing as an Assessment Tool in Science
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We know that writing is a huge part of science. It is the way scientists communicate ideas, results, conclusions, and opinions to other scientists. Thus, the author uses writing in a number of ways to have students…
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