Formative Assessment Probes: Embedding Formative Assessment Into the 5E Instructional Model

Journal Article | November 2017

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue includes an illustrative example of how formative assessment probes and formative assessment classroom techniques can be embedded into a…

Formative Assessment Probes: Habitat Change: Formative Assessment of a Cautionary Word

Journal Article | February 2014

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses word usage and learning about habitat.

Formative Assessment Probes: Labeling Versus Explaining

Journal Article | January 2013

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the life cycle of a butterfly.

Formative Assessment Probes: Big and Small Seeds

Journal Article | June 2016

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue links formative assessment probes to the scientific practices.

Formative Assessment Probes: Ice Cubes in a Bag

Journal Article | December 2014

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover children's ideas about open and closed systems.

Formative Assessment Probes: Talking About Shadows

Journal Article | September 2012

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue highlights shadow investigations that provide an ideal context for children to collect and analyze data used to recognize and explain…

Formative Assessment Probes: Representing Microscopic Life

Journal Article | November 2011

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe "Pond Water," which reveals how elementary children will often apply what they know about animal…