Editor's Corner: Obtain, Evaluate, Communicate!

Journal Article | January 2015

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

Evaluating Scientific Arguments With Slow Thinking

Journal Article | October 2013

Explore System 1 and System 2 thinking as it relates to evaluating scientific arguments.

Evaluating College Science and Mathematics Instruction

Journal Article | February 2002

This paper reports evaluative data on five courses that have taken part in a curriculum reform effort called the Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers. Primarily through summer faculty…

Using Scoring Rubrics to Evaluate Inquiry

Journal Article | August 2004

This article explores the problem of assigning grades to students engaged in nontraditional activities, especially scientific inquiry. The authors suggest using scoring rubrics to guide students in their work and to…

Using the Draw-a-Scientist Test for Inquiry and Evaluation

Journal Article | February 2014

This article describes the use of the Draw-a-Scientist Test as both a model for inquiry and as a method of assessing the affective domain.

Society for College Science Teachers: “What? Professors Evaluating Themselves? Are You Out of Your Mind?” In Defense of Faculty Self-Evaluation

Journal Article | February 2009

Self-assessment is a win-win evaluation system. Evaluees, not the department or university, control the process by selecting the evaluation criteria. Self-assessment also eliminates the uncomfortable and burdensome task…

Student Evaluations That Generate More Questions Than Answers

Journal Article | August 2008

As a chemical educator, one of the author’s primary goals is to provide students with tools for effective learning, hopefully doing so in an engaging, motivating, and incrementally challenging experience. In her quest…

Point of View: Critical Lesson Evaluation for Preservice Teachers

Journal Article | August 2018

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This issue discusses common science learning activites found online and the need to add thinking about how these types…

Teacher’s Toolkit: Strategies for the meaningful evaluation of multiple-choice assessments

Journal Article | September 2010

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…