Formative Assessment Probes: Constructing Cl-Ev-R Explanations to Formative Assessment Probes

Journal Article | October 2015

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment classroom technique C-E-O-SE.

Formative Assessment Probes: With a Purpose

Journal Article | June 2011

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author uses the stages of the SAIL Cycle to reflect upon and share some of the ways the probes published in Science and Children (…

Formative Assessment Probes: To Hypothesize or Not

Journal Article | November 2010

Formative assessment probes are used not only to uncover the ideas students bring to their learning, they can also be used to reveal teachers’ common misconceptions. Consider a process widely used in inquiry science—…

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?

Journal Article | March 2011

Uncover the hidden meanings children construct.

Formative Assessment Probes: Using Formative Assessment Probes to Develop Elementary Learning Stations

Journal Article | June 2018

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue discusses learning station probes.

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning

Journal Article | October 2013

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author explores how the formative assessment probe "Is It Melting?" was used to confront teachers with their own alternative…