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How Do Technologies Change?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how technologies change. The probe is designed to see if students are aware ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Assessment Engineering STEM

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Block Diagrams

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a bl...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Assessment Engineering STEM

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Technology, System, or Both?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine if students are ab...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Assessment Engineering STEM

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Systems Within Systems

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine the extent to whic...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Assessment Engineering STEM

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Who Engineers?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about engineers. The probe is designed to reveal how students think about who is a...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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Who Can Become an Engineer?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about who can become an engineer. The probe is designed to reveal whether students...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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Team Players?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit student’ ideas about engineers and teamwork. The probe is designed to see if students recognize th...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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Working Together to Save Lives

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the role of different professions in contributing to the solution of a probl...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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How Are Science and Engineering Similar?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the ways in which science and engineering are similar. The probe is designed...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School High School Engineering STEM

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Is Engineering Creative?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about creativity in engineering. The probe is designed to determine the extent to ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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Reasons for Success

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the use of evidence and reasoning to support a claim. The probe is designed ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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Is Engineering Experimental?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about using experimentation to solve a problem. The probe is designed to see if st...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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Is It Rocket Science?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the importance of both engineering and science for creating technology. The ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School High School Engineering STEM

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An Engineering Design Process

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an engineering design process. The probe is designed to show how students th...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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How Do Engineers Solve Problems?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use an engineering design process to solve problems. The probe...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

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