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Teacher to Teacher: Vote, Discuss, Revote: A Formative Assessment Classroom Technique
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques, or FACTS, allow teachers to assess student thinking. This article discusses the Vote-Discuss-Revote (VDR) FACT. VDR…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Students’ Ideas About Inherited Traits
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the “Baby Mice” probe, which is designed for middle and high school students, but it can be used with grades 3–5 to elicit…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Watermelon and Grape: An Intuitive Rule of Quantity and Proportion
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue shows a formative assessment probe that reveals how strong the "More A - More B" intuitive rule is when students are considering the…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Pendulums and Crooked Swings: Connecting Science and Engineering
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores the complementary nature of science and engineering in the elementary classroom.
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Twitter in the Higher Education Classroom: A Student and Faculty Assessment of Use and Perception
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This article describes a study that assesses social media use and perception of utility in higher education classrooms among faculty, graduate, and undergraduate cohorts.
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Designed for Successful Learning: Using multiple intelligence assessment in the science classroom
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This article reports the results of a research study that assessed the multiple intelligences of high school students enrolled in physics courses.
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Using Formative and Alternative Assessments to Support Instruction and Measure Student Learning
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Using formative assessment involves gathering data from students on their progress and comprehension so that instruction can be adjusted to meet their learning needs (Popham 2001; Greenstein 2010). This article…
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In-Class Incentives That Encourage Students to Take Concept Assessments Seriously
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This article explores whether administering a posttest on the final exam differs from administering it on the last day of class with extra final exam points for scoring 100% on the posttest as an incentive.