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  • Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence

    NSTA Press Book |

    Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and…

  • Assessing Assessment to Inform Science Leadership

    Book Chapter |

    This chapter uses the ReaL Earth System Science project as a metaphor for investigating the landscape of assessment in science education. This framing turns the focus of the five questions away from the Earth system and…

  • The Final Assessment

    Book Chapter |

    As with all large projects, there are often many ways to approach the final assessment. Since the inception of this project, the authors have tried numerous methods to evaluate this yearlong performance assessment—some…

  • Assessment Literacy

    Book Chapter |

    Student learning is the ultimate goal of everything you do in the classroom. Assessment is the process of gathering information (or evidence) from a variety of sources to determine what students are learning in terms of…

  • Reflections on Assessment

    Book Chapter |

    As a context for thinking about the claims made in this book, some of the circumstances that have influenced the demand for and character of assessment in general are noted. The argument is then made that the…

  • Assessment of Inquiry

    Book Chapter |

    This chapter provides an overview of frameworks that teachers can use to conduct assessments of students’ engagement in scientific inquiry. The author examines two factors that are central to such assessment. One factor…

  • Assessment Activities

    Book Chapter |

    This book is a compilation of brief descriptions of innovative and effective ideas, tips, and approaches in undergraduate science teaching. Assessment must be aligned with learning goals and successful learning is…

  • 3D Assessment

    Journal Article |

    We are now a decade past the release of the NGSS —an event that has shaped the way we teach science. The NGSS, with its three-dimensional approach encompassing disciplinary core ideas (DCIs), science and engineering…

  • Assessment in Science: Practical Experiences and Education Research

    NSTA Press Book |

    If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-date reports is by authors who are practicing K-12 classroom teachers…

  • Science Formative Assessment, Volume 1: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning - 2nd Edition

    NSTA Press Book |

    A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that…

  • Learning Through Assessment: Assessment for Learning in the Science Classroom

    Book Chapter |

    This chapter presents an extended example from a middle school science classroom of what assessment that supports learning looks like. In the example, the teacher models assessment for learning by talking about learning…

  • Assessment for English Learners

    Journal Article |

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