Formative Assessment Probes: Using the P-E-O Technique

Journal Article | December 2012

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses using predictions, explanations, and observations during the Solids and Holes formative assessment probe.

Formative Assessment Probes: Teachers as Classroom Researchers

Journal Article | October 2011

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses having teachers conduct their own study regarding students' thoughts on whether something is an animal.

Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About Magnetism and Formative Assessment

Journal Article | August 2017

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe “Can You Pick It up With a Magnet?” which is designed to find out what types of materials…

Formative Assessment Probes: How Far Did It Go?

Journal Article | December 2010

The formative assessment probe “How Far Did It Go?” in Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science: 45 Force and Motion Assessment Probes (Keeley and Harrington 2010) can be used to reveal whether students recognize…

Formative Assessment Probes: When Equipment Gets in the Way

Journal Article | February 2013

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to elicit students' initial ideas about how to light a bulb with a battery and a wire.

Formative Assessment Probes: Vocabulary in Context: What Is an Amphibian?

Journal Article | October 2017

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores what characteristics make an amphibian.

Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Representations of the Water Cycle

Journal Article | December 2017

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores the effect of representations on children’s thinking about evaporation and the water cycle.