JoinAll Assessment resources
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the formation of the Grand Canyon. The probe is designed to find out if stud...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to fin...
By Page Keeley and Cary Sneider
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What Do You Know About Volcanoes and Earthquakes?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plate tectonic features and events. The probe is designed to uncover commonl...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s natural resources. The probe is designed to find out if students c...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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Are They Talking About Climate or Weather?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about climate. The probe is designed to find out whether students distinguish betw...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun and stars. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about ...
By Page Keeley and Cary Sneider
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weather versus climate. The probe is designed to find out if students distin...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visu...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out whether students have commonly he...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
Journal Article
A Novel Rubric Format for Providing Feedback on Process Skills to STEM Undergraduate Students
To improve student process-skill development, a novel type of rubric was developed that goes beyond a typical analytic rubric by providing detailed fe...
By Doug Czajka, Gil Reynders, Courtney Stanford, Renée Cole, Juliette Lantz, and Suzanne Ruder
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possi...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies o...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington