Science Educator's Guide to Laboratory Assessment

Science Educator's Guide to Laboratory Assessment
Author: Rodney L. Doran
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0873552105

Focus on frequent, accurate feedback with this newly expanded guide to understanding assessment. Field-tested and classroom ready, it's designed to help you reinforce productive learning habits while gauging your lessons' effectiveness. The book opens with an up-to-date discussion of assessment theory, research, and uses. Then comes a wealth of sample assessment activities (nearly 50 in all, including 15 new ones) in biology, chemistry, physics, and Earth science. You'll like the activities' flexibility. Some are short tasks that zero in on a few specific process skills; others are investigations involving a variety of skills you can cover in one or two class periods; and still others are extended, in-depth investigations that take several weeks to complete. Keyed to the U.S. National Science Education Standards, the activities include reproducible task sheets and scoring rubrics. All are ideal for helping your students reflect on their own learning during science labs.

Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment

Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment
Author: Xiufeng Liu
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412961017

Grounded in the constructivist inquiry approach to science teaching and learning, Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment bridges science assessment research and practice, and connects science assessment and learning. This book will help students in science methods courses to develop essential skills in conducting science assessment to support student learning. The chapters parallel a typical structure of a science methods course, making the integration of this text into a science methods course seamless. Due to its practical and concise nature, this book is also ideal for practicing science teachers to use as a professional development resource.

Assessment in Science

Assessment in Science
Author: Maureen McMahon
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1933531002

If you want to learn about the latest research on assessment techniques that really work, the ideal sourcebook is right here in your hands. Assessment in Science is a collection of up-to-date reports by authors who are practicing K-16 classroom teachers and university-based educators and researchers.

Formative Assessments and Teacher Professional Learning

Formative Assessments and Teacher Professional Learning
Author: Dineke E.H. Tigelaar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317335058

How can formative assessment be used as a means to support teacher professional learning? This book presents several studies, from different countries, on approaches to formative assessment of teachers, both before they start working, and during their careers. These approaches draw on insights from studies into effective teacher professional development. Together, the chapters in this book provide an overview of the various ways in which formative assessment may be used to support teacher professional learning, and shed light on choices that can be made in designing such assessments. The studies illustrate how teachers may perceive formative assessment methods, how their learning processes might unfold during formative assessment processes, and which struggles they may have to deal with during the process. The book furthermore addresses questions concerning the impact of formative assessments on teacher learning. As such, this volume provides theoretical as well as practical prospects, as well as challenging ideas for how formative assessment may move further towards being an effective means for supporting teacher learning. This book was originally published as a special issue of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice.

Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry and Argumentation

Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry and Argumentation
Author: Douglas Llewellyn
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452244456

For Grades 9-12, this new edition covers assessment, questioning techniques to promote learning, new approaches to traditional labs, and activities that emphasize making claims and citing evidence.

Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry

Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry
Author: Douglas Llewellyn
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0761939385

Describes inquiry-based instruction and explains how to use it in the high school science classroom in accordance with national standards, providing case studies and other tools.

Active Assessment: Assessing Scientific Inquiry

Active Assessment: Assessing Scientific Inquiry
Author: David I. Hanauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009-04-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 038789649X

The term scienti?c inquiry as manifest in different educational settings covers a wide range of diverse activities. The differences in types of scienti?c inquiry can be organized along a continuum according to the degree of teacher control and intellectual sophistication involved in each type of inquiry. Types of scienti?c inquiry can also be de?ned according to whether they produce cultural knowledge or personal knowledge. Authentic scienti?c inquiry is de?ned according to ?ve characteristics: devel- ment of personal and cultural knowledge; contextualized scienti?c knowledge; the progression toward high-order problem solving; social interaction for s- enti?c goals; and scienti?c inquiry as a multi-stage and multi-representational process. The de?nition of scienti?c inquiry that forms the basis for the development of an assessment program consists of a two-part analytical frame: the de?nition of knowledge types relevant to scienti?c inquiry and the de?nition of an organi- tional frame for these knowledge types. Four types of knowledge are signi?cant for the de?nition of a speci?c s- enti?c inquiry program: cognitive knowledge, physical knowledge, represen- tional knowledge, and presentational knowledge. All four of these knowledge types are considered signi?cant. These four types of knowledge are organized in a framework that consists of two intersecting axes: the axis of knowledge types and the axis of stages of a s- ci?c scienti?c inquiry. This framework describes scienti?c inquiry as multi-stage process that involves the development of a series of in-lab outcomes (represen- tions) over an extended period of time.

Watershed Dynamics

Watershed Dynamics
Author: William S. Carlsen
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1935155865

Whether youOCOre a stream studies novice or a veteran aquatic monitor, Watershed Dynamics gives you abundant practical resources to extend your studentsOCO investigations into local water quality and land-use issues. This two-part set is ideal for teaching biological and ecological concepts and research techniques. It also shows how the interplay between scientific data and human judgment can shape public policy decisions on zoning, flood control, and agricultural practices."

Biology Inquiries

Biology Inquiries
Author: Martin Shields
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2005-10-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0787976520

Biology Inquiries offers educators a handbook for teaching middle and high school students engaging lessons in the life sciences. Inspired by the National Science Education Standards, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice. With exciting twists on standard biology instruction the author emphasizes active inquiry instead of rote memorization. Biology Inquiries contains many innovative ideas developed by biology teacher Martin Shields. This dynamic resource helps teachers introduce standards-based inquiry and constructivist lessons into their classrooms. Some of the book's classroom-tested lessons are inquiry modifications of traditional "cookbook" labs that biology teachers will recognize. Biology Inquiries provides a pool of active learning lessons to choose from with valuable tips on how to implement them.