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Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Young Children’s Concept of a Plant
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue uses the “Is It a Plant?” formative assessment probe, which was...
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Practices to Support Students who Struggle in Science
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue highlights how formative assessment activities suppor...
Blog Post
Seeking a New Way to Assess Science at All Levels
The word assessment can prompt feelings of dread, mistrust, or outright hate in many teachers. That’s distressing, as quality instruction includes q...
By Cindy Workosky
Blog Post
Kentucky’s Systems Approach to Assessing Three-Dimensional Standards
One thing is clear about our multi-dimensional standards: They require a complex and thoughtful approach to assessment. No single, conventional, summa...
By Cindy Workosky
Journal Article
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe “Can You Pick It up With...
Blog Post
It's Elementary: Investigating Student Work
Teachers wear many hats in the classroom. We are doctors, therapists, IT technicians, politicians, and entertainers, but the one hat we wear that is e...
By Cindy Workosky
Blog Post
It is truly an exciting time in science education. Science educators across the country are adapting to a new vision of how students learn science gui...
By Cindy Workosky
NSTA Press Book
Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! ...
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Ask the Right Question
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shows how teachers can use literature and higher-leve...