Formative Assessment Probes: Mountaintop Fossil: A Puzzling Phenomenon | NSTA

Formative Assessment Probes: Mountaintop Fossil: A Puzzling Phenomenon

Science and Children—December 2015

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue describes using formative assement probes to uncover several ways of thinking about the puzzling discovery of a marine fossil on top of a mountain.

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