Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning

Journal Article | October 2013

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author explores how the formative assessment probe "Is It Melting?" was used to confront teachers with their own alternative…

Better Formative Assessment

Journal Article | February 2017

Making formative assessment more responsive to student needs.

Crystal Clear Assessment

Journal Article | October 2013

Techniques for rich, authentic asssessment are revealed through a polymer gel spheres project.

Simply Performance Assessment

Journal Article | October 2013

A fourth-grade lesson on simple machines integrates performance assessment tasks.

Assessing Scientific Inquiry

Journal Article | December 2007

Assessing student-led, open-ended scientific inquiry holds a unique problem for classroom teachers because of the diverse skills and content that emerge from student work. This article provides tangible strategies for…

Assessing Student Understanding

Journal Article | February 2004

Science education has moved from the traditional lecture-and-demonstration model toward a student inquiry model. Although science teachers know that inquiry teaching is desirable, they are frequently at a loss when it…

Customized Internet Assessments

Journal Article | April 2001

Online assessments, one area of Internet technology that educators are still trying to develop, can involve complicated programming beyond the reach of many instructors. This article describes a program that enables…