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Developing a Classroom Assessment Rubric
Journal Article |
The development and implementation of varied assessment practices is a major focus in higher education. Assessment benefits both students and teachers; it informs teachers about students’ learning and misconceptions,…
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Science Assessments as a Learning Opportunity
Journal Article |
Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments support learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide…
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Formative Assessment for Equitable Learning
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Assessing Science as Inquiry in the Classroom
Book Chapter |
Assessments of inquiry should align with what we know about learning and should be balanced and authentic. That is, they should include all the important features of inquiry, not just those easy to assess. This approach…
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How Assessment and Testing Developed
Book Chapter |
The United States has approximately 55 million students in grades K–12. On average, teachers administer 100 teacher-generated tests per school year, which translates into America’s students taking approximately 550…
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The Importance of Aligning Teaching and Assessment
Book Chapter |
This chapter focuses on the relation that is desirable between assessment and teaching activities in order to keep coherence with teaching goals and help all students to understand this coherence. The PISA 2006…
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Developing Assessment Performance Indicators
Book Chapter |
The goal of assessment is to judge how well a student has learned. This information has a range of uses but is mainly used to improve student learning or for the accreditation of student performance. This chapter is the…
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Varied Assessment: A Brief Introduction
Book Chapter |
Although often seen as a means for evaluation, assessment is first and foremost an instructional tool. Use of multiple assessment strategies can provide students with diverse feedback, allowing them to view the subject…
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Assessments That Assist in Motivating Students
Book Chapter |
Assessments are one of the few ways students can be reached individually. You can directly interact with each student. If used in thoughtful ways, assessments can motivate students to engage in class and to study on…
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Better Multiple-Choice Assessments
Book Chapter |
Multiple-choice questions have an important place in the assessment of student learning and constructed correctly, can provide instructors and students alike with valuable insight to student learning. This chapter is…
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Assessing Inquiry-Based Instruction
Book Chapter |
Assessment encompasses more than just exams and papers. It also involves informally assessing student learning in progress, formally assessing students to determine their learning gains, and assessing whether the…
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Revised Views of Classroom Assessment
Book Chapter |
The Classroom Assessment Project to Improve Teaching and Learning (CAPITAL), a collaborative research initiative between Stanford University and middle school science teachers in nearby school districts, examined…
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Assessment Linked To Science Learning Goals: Probing Student Thinking Through Assessment
Book Chapter |
The focus of this chapter is on how to design science assessment items that are linked to the content standards in Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards. This chapter describes (1…
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The Feedback Loop: Using Formative Assessment Data for Science Teaching and Learning
NSTA Press Book |
What really helps your students learn science: Labs? Group work? Certain types of problems or test questions? Something you never even thought about? Find out with data that go way beyond what standardized test scores…
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