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PISA: Frequently Answered Criticisms
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Studies such as PISA are routinely criticized by educational commentators—particularly when the results are not consistent with their preconceived ideas about the relative merits and efficiencies of various educational…
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PISA Science 2006: International Results
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Throughout the world education authorities want to know the capacities that their students develop during their formative years in schools. They want to know to what extent students have learned fundamental scientific…
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Knowledge of and About Science
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An intuitive and common sense understanding of a science assessment would be that it aims at measuring students' knowledge of and about science. The aim of PISA is to assess to what degree students can apply their…
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What Scientific Knowledge Remains When the Rest is Forgotten?
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The PISA 2006 definition of scientific literacy encompasses three competencies—identifying scientific issues, explaining phenomena scientifically, and using scientific evidence. The results for scientific literacy show…
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What Lies Behind Finnish Students' Success in PISA Science?
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Finnish students' performance in the PISA scientific literacy assessment has been excellent, and even improved between the three-year cycles of PISA measurements. It is not easy to explain the good results, but this…
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Overcoming Challenges and Succeeding in PISA Science 2006
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Despite the absence of a national science curriculum and the inevitable differences in science curriculum across Canada, Canadian students ranked third in the world on the PISA 2006 science assessment. This chapter…
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Building a Culture of Faculty-Owned Assessment
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With so much at stake for both students and institutions, it is imperative that colleges and universities support faculty and others in comprehensive assessment efforts and act on changes suggested by assessment data.…
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At Montana State University (MSU) a variety of strategies have been used to begin to quantitatively assess how students are learning in the science classroom. The author reviews in this chapter some of the work that has…
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Alternative Forms of Assessment for The College Science Laboratory
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A basic definition of alternative assessment is any type of evaluation that does not use traditional forms of paper-and-pencil testing. Too often new forms of teaching and learning are coupled with traditional forms of…
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Survey Instrument Validation: The First Commandment of Educational Research
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Survey instrument validation may be the most difficult task for a scientist starting to conduct educational research. A survey that is preceived to be inadequately validated will generally be rejected for publication,…
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The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic shift in how science is taught. Electronic portfolios—hereafter referred to as e-portfolios—represent one possible way to bring assessment into alignment with technology-…
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The integration of math, science, and technology (MST) into robust inquiry-based learning opportunities is a tall order for any educator. However, it is critical to do so throughout the learning process. This chapter…
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Gauging the Nature of Science (NOS): An Alternate Form of Assessment
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Science teachers of all disciplines can use students' NOS (nature of science) scores as an alternate form of assessment. In addition to traditional forms of assessment like exams and quizzes, NOS levels can truly…
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In recent years, the value of using authentic assessments to evaluate student learning has been discussed at all levels. The use of authentic assessments, in the use of lesson plans, has proven to be a valuable tool for…
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Formative Assessment With Student Remotes and E-mail
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This chapter features two formative assessment techniques that were implemented in several sections of the first semester of an introductory physics class at East Stroudsburg University. The performance of these…
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