Rethinking the Role of the Science Teacher: Eschewing standardized testing in favor of authentic assessment

Journal Article | April 2000

Researchers believe an uncomfortable trend is developing in education reform—teaching is being influenced by large-scale assessments that fail to capture students’ abilities to do sustained work. This article focuses on…

Science Sampler: The DEP saves the beans—A Performance assessment task for acid rain

Journal Article | March 2007

Using performance assessment tasks allows students to demonstrate conceptual understanding of the important ideas of science, use scientific tools and processes, apply understanding of ideas to solve new, draw on what…

Research and Teaching: An Assessment of STEM Faculty Involvement in Reform of Introductory College Courses

Journal Article | June 2010

Twin strategies of Institutes on the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics and support for faculty through minigrants are shown to be effective in stimulating college science and mathematics faculty to modify…

What Are They Thinking? Promoting Elementary Learning Through Formative Assessment (e-Book)

eBook | March 2014

A REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! “Children are continually developing ideas and explanations about their natural world. … Some of these ideas are consistent with…

Taming the Testing/Grading Cycle in Lecture Classes Centered Around Open-Ended Assessment

Journal Article | February 2011

Testing strategies centered around open-ended assessments are generally thought to result in deeper learning compared with close-ended questioning. However, the time requirements involved in grading open-ended…

Research and Teaching: Delivery of Summative Assessment Matters for Improving At-Risk Student Learning

Journal Article | August 2017

This study investigates how summative assessments could be used to reduce the achievement gap among at-risk groups of students in an introductory biology course.