Implementing classroom instructional strategies that lend themselves to both unidimensional assessments and alternative assessments provide evidence of proficiency that can satisfy both school and student learning evaluations. Barnard Environmental Magnet School’s collaboration with Solar Youth offers one such learning and assessment opportunity. Solar Youth’s Hands-On Outdoor Learning Adventure (HOLA) method of instruction uses hands-on inquiry strategies in combination with kinesthetic-based cognitive questioning and is the basis for this chapter. The HOLA approach is an example of how kinesthetic assessment can help improve student experiences with multiple-choice test-taking skills while also engaging students with socially important scientific issues. This learning strategy retains student engagement inasmuch as the student is actively presenting and thinking about what is being discussed.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 9/1/2010Stock # PB192X7_15