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Classic Lessons 2.0: Project- and problem-based learning and assessment
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This article describes an activity that primarily focuses on project-based learning where students are actively engaged to solve the challenge of building a paper roller coaster that meets specific criteria (e.g., a…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Young Children’s Concept of a Plant
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue uses the “Is It a Plant?” formative assessment probe, which was developed to elicit primary students’ initial ideas about plants and the…
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From the Editor’s Desk: Engaging Students in Learning Through Assessment
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering “Maker” Ideas About Sound
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue discusses the Making Sound probe.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Students’ Ideas About Watersheds
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. Water-quality monitoring engages students in learning about watersheds and watershed stewardship. Before introducing the concept of a watershed, find out…
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Digital Badges in Science: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning
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Digital badging is an innovative method of valid, evidence-based assessment that may be used to assess hands-on skills in undergraduate science laboratories, in research laboratories, and in fieldwork. The authors have…
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Assessing the Readability of Geoscience Textbooks, Laboratory Manuals, and Supplemental Materials
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Reading materials used in undergraduate science classes have not received the same attention in the literature as those used in secondary schools. Additionally, reports critical of college textbooks and their prose are…
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Assessing Science Practices: Moving Your Class Along a Continuum
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Evaluate the quality of students' science practices to help you design lessons that target problem areas.
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Assessing Student Progress Along a Solar System Learning Progression
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Unify disparate astronomical concepts with the help of the NGSS.
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Editor's Roundtable: Align Your Assessments With Three-Dimensional Learning
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Mountain Age: Creating a Classroom Profile
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue covers the concept of the role of weathering in shaping the features of mountains.
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Assessing Performance Tasks: Guidelines for developing objective scoring rubrics
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As educators incorporate additional performance tasks into instruction, they are faced with the challenge of evaluating student achievement related to those tasks. The key to evaluation is developing student- and…
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Assessment in Science: Practical Experiences and Education Research (e-Book)
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If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-date reports is by authors who are practicing K-12 classroom teachers…
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