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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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Journal Article |
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The (Trans)Formative Assessment Planning Template
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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Using Assessment to Help Students Learn
Book Chapter |
Assessment in the classroom is more than tests and quizzes on Friday. It is an everyday feature of classroom life. Students and teachers use assessment, for example, when they gauge the quality of a response to a…
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Improving Learning in Science With Formative Assessment
Book Chapter |
In recent years, the No Child Left Behind law has focused attention on student achievement in science across the United States, but there are more important reasons for being concerned with student achievement. The…
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Assessing PISA 2006 Scientific Competencies
Book Chapter |
This chapter begins by considering what is meant by scientific literacy and how the PISA 2006 scientific competencies encompass basic components of scientific literacy. Then it describes some examples of how these…
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Building a Culture of Faculty-Owned Assessment
Book Chapter |
With so much at stake for both students and institutions, it is imperative that colleges and universities support faculty and others in comprehensive assessment efforts and act on changes suggested by assessment data.…
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Eleven Assessment Lessons Learned at the Gate
Book Chapter |
As a "gateway" instructor for more than 30 years, the author learned a few things about assessing the "typical" community college student. "Gateway" is the polite euphemism for suggesting you will always be teaching the…
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Assessing and Addressing Student Science Ideas
Book Chapter |
Our students are not blank slates. They come to school with a wide range of experiences that have shaped their science understandings—reading books, watching TV, and playing video games. From many years of research…
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Strategies for Assessing Science and Language Learning
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, the authors give an overview of principles for assessing language learners in science. They describe how to plan assessment, how to use it in the classroom, and how to provide feedback and improve…
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Classroom Assessment in the Service of Student Learning
Book Chapter |
Science education reform literature acknowledges the close relationship between assessment and learning. This chapter takes a closer look at this tight link between assessment and learning, specifically at how classroom…
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Evolving Ideas: Assessment in an Evolution Course
Book Chapter |
As science instruction moves from lectures that emphasize lists of facts to more student-centered approaches that emphasize knowledge generation and justification, it is clear that assessments must also change. The…