Formative Assessment Probes: The Daytime Moon

Journal Article | December 2011

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses misconceptions about when you can see the moon.

Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Probes

Journal Article | December 2007

Formative assessment probes can be effective tools to help teachers build a bridge between students’ initial ideas and scientific ones. In this article, the authors describe how using two formative assessment probes can…

Formative Assessment Probes: Seeing the Light

Journal Article | January 2012

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses students' preconceptions related to the reflection of light.

Formative Assessment Probes: The Mitten Problem

Journal Article | February 2011

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue, the theory of "immaculate insulation" is prevalent among students. This formative assessment probe will help students overcome this…

Formative Assessment Probes: Where Are the Stars?

Journal Article | August 2011

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author explores children's knowledge of where the stars are in relation to the Earth and Moon.