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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weather versus climate. The probe is designed to find out if students distin...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visu...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out whether students have commonly he...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
Journal Article
A Novel Rubric Format for Providing Feedback on Process Skills to STEM Undergraduate Students
To improve student process-skill development, a novel type of rubric was developed that goes beyond a typical analytic rubric by providing detailed fe...
By Doug Czajka, Gil Reynders, Courtney Stanford, Renée Cole, Juliette Lantz, and Suzanne Ruder
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possi...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies o...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize th...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify fo...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine wh...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students reco...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed ...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass...
By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel