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This final step of the Feedback Loop is where everything comes together. The chapter starts by talking about what we mean by inferences and then walks through a few guides for making those inferences. Also included are…
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This chapter explores how to close the loop by connecting inferences and goals through feedback. It presents the process of connecting inferences about student learning back to original goals in the Feedback Loop, a…
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Using the Feedback Loop to Plan and Inform Instruction
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This chapter uses the full Feedback Loop to describe an approach for planning and informing instruction. It is designed to combine all the information in the previous chapters into a series of resources that will help…
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This chapter discusses how to collaborate with colleagues when considering data and the Feedback Loop to further increase the effect this work can have. We discuss the value and importance of working with other…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to see whether students recognize that units of distance traveled must be measured with a measurement device from the starting point to the ending point. The probe reveals whether…
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The purpose of this probe is to examine how students interpret a graphical representation of motion. The probe is designed to reveal whether students interpret a motion graph pictorially or mathematically.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about comparing motions. The probe is designed to see if students differentiate between the concept of position and the concept of speed. The probe will…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about living things. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that seeds are living when they are in a dormant state.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about “plant food.” The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that plants use the sugars they make as their food.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the flow of energy in a trophic relationship that children are most familiar with—food chains. The probe is designed to find out if students…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transfer of matter and energy in ecosystems. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that only matter is cycled through an…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students hold Lamarckian ideas about individual organisms adapting to changes in the…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sexual reproduction. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that multicellular organisms develop from a fertilized egg.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about life cycles. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that the pupal stage of a life cycle is a living organism.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about structures they encounter when they learn about heredity. The probe is designed to reveal students’ ideas about the “parts and wholes” relationship…
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