Successful Science Teaching

Successful Science Teaching
Author: PAUL. SPENCELEY
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913622961

Teachers simply do not have the time to do any more work. Yet the pressure to improve results is ever-upwards. The emphasis in this book is not on doing anything extra, but on doing all the everyday things that science teachers do - planning lessons, marking work and exams, providing feedback, and getting students involved in discussions, or self and peer-assessment - in a slightly different way. The book is full of simple, practical, formative assessment techniques and strategies, based on real classroom practices, repeated across the range of ages and abilities at secondary levels, in a variety of schools, that have been repeatedly shown to significantly improve examination results, and student involvement in lessons. Whether you are just about to embark on a career as a science teacher, or you have been one for many years, there is bound to be something here.

Successful Science Teaching: Improving achievement and learning engagement by using classroom assessment

Successful Science Teaching: Improving achievement and learning engagement by using classroom assessment
Author: Paul Spenceley
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1914351940

Teachers simply do not have the time to do any more work. Yet the pressure to improve results is ever-upwards. The emphasis in this book is not on doing anything extra, but on doing all the everyday things that science teachers do – planning lessons, marking work and exams, providing feedback, and getting students involved in discussions, or self and peer-assessment – in a slightly different way. The book is full of simple, practical, formative assessment techniques and strategies, based on real classroom practices, repeated across the range of ages and abilities at secondary levels, in a variety of schools, that have been repeatedly shown to significantly improve examination results, and student involvement in lessons. Whether you are just about to embark on a career as a science teacher, or you have been one for many years, there is bound to be something here.

Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards

Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2001-08-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 030906998X

The National Science Education Standards address not only what students should learn about science but also how their learning should be assessed. How do we know what they know? This accompanying volume to the Standards focuses on a key kind of assessment: the evaluation that occurs regularly in the classroom, by the teacher and his or her students as interacting participants. As students conduct experiments, for example, the teacher circulates around the room and asks individuals about their findings, using the feedback to adjust lessons plans and take other actions to boost learning. Focusing on the teacher as the primary player in assessment, the book offers assessment guidelines and explores how they can be adapted to the individual classroom. It features examples, definitions, illustrative vignettes, and practical suggestions to help teachers obtain the greatest benefit from this daily evaluation and tailoring process. The volume discusses how classroom assessment differs from conventional testing and grading-and how it fits into the larger, comprehensive assessment system.

Formative Assessment Strategies for Enhanced Learning in Science, K-8

Formative Assessment Strategies for Enhanced Learning in Science, K-8
Author: Elizabeth Hammerman
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412962978

Ideal for preservice and inservice teachers, this user-friendly resource demonstrates how to use formative assessments to guide instruction and evaluate student learning in standards-based science.

Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment

Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment
Author: Xiufeng Liu
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412993032

A concise science assessment text that helps K–12 teachers master the effective science assessment methods that lead to improved student learning Presenting both traditional and innovative assessment methods integral to science teaching and learning, Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment shows teachers the connection between effective science assessment and improved student learning. The text uses a competence-based approach consistent with the National Science Education Standards to help teachers master assessment skills, apply them to science classroom instruction, and evaluate their impact on student learning. Key Features and Benefits Provides practical examples from both elementary and secondary science classrooms to demonstrate how to design a wide variety of traditional and innovative assessment methods Presents case scenarios in each chapter that help teachers reflect on the assessment issues they will encounter in their own classrooms Includes end-of-chapter checklists and practice questions that allow readers to check their mastery of assessment skills before moving on, as well as annotated bibliographies that direct them to additional readings on topics of interest

Embedded Formative Assessment

Embedded Formative Assessment
Author: Dylan Wiliam
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1936765012

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.

Student Assessment

Student Assessment
Author: Dylan Wiliam
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071949551

Fuel student-driven success and enhance learning with better assessment What if there was a better way to collect and interpret assessment data that could strengthen the link between teaching and learning? Student Assessment: Better Evidence, Better Decisions, Better Learning is the innovative guide to show you how it′s done and done right. This unique book offers a new assessment model focused on decision-driven data collection and provides an arsenal of tools for collecting better evidence to increase student learning. You will learn: the importance of assessment in the teaching and learning process what a decision-driven data collection assessment model looks like and how it differs from a more traditional data-driven decision-making model how to effectively establish learning intentions and success criteria within assessments to actively engage students in their own learning how to implement an array of assessment tools that yield better evidence and improve decision-making how to address the challenge of ensuring authenticity in students′ responses when AI-generated content is becoming more common With this guide in hand, you′ll be ready for a better approach to assessment—armed with practical tools and strategies to ensure students can analyze, synthesize, adapt, critique, and most importantly, take charge of their own learning.

Assessment as Learning

Assessment as Learning
Author: Lorna M. Earl
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452284369

Your key to understanding how formative assessment improves learning! High-stakes tests and end-of-year assessments dominate educational planning and curriculum. Yet, formative assessments are proven to have the most impact on day-to-day learning. Teachers who understand how to use assessment to spark learning unlock a powerful educational tool, and Assessment as Learning can show you how. Using clear explanations and poignant cases, this book illustrates how formative assessment can be used to understand student beliefs, inform classroom instruction, and encourage student reflection. Fully revised, this second edition features Discussion of the complex nature of learning Ways to use formative assessment in a variety of contexts Real-life examples and case studies of assessment in action Sample rubrics and lesson plans for easy implementation Ideas for Follow-up at the end of each chapter Insights into common classroom dilemmas along with viable solutions Unraveling the mystery of formative assessment, this resource reveals how this teaching technique optimizes learning. "Lorna Earl is an international thought leader when it comes to linking quality assessment to teaching, learning and student success." —Rick Stiggins, Author and Consultant "Earl begins at the beginning, focusing on assessing what students believe is true and using assessment information to help students develop and extend learning from those initial beliefs. Readers should do likewise, asking themselves what they believe is true about assessment and then extending their learning with this book." —Susan M. Brookhart, Consultant Brookhart Enterprises

Designing Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom

Designing Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom
Author:
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807746332

This book describes how middle school science teachers, in collaboration with a team of researchers, tried to improve their everyday assessment practices to enhance student learning. It discusses the challenges they faced, the differences among the teachers, and the personal nature of deep educational change. A product of CAPITAL (Classroom Assessment Project to Improve Teaching and Learning), a research effort supported by the National Science Foundation, this book: Uses classroom stories to show how teachers can use a variety of formative assessment techniques to answer questions they have about their teaching.; Provides real-life examples of teachers grappling with new practices at a personal level, in their own settings and in light of their own values and beliefs; Offers suggestions for designing professional development efforts that recognize the significant variation among teachers in how they go about changing their assessment practices ; Outlines principles and practices that must accompany change in the classroom if it is to be more than superficial.

Educational Assessment

Educational Assessment
Author: Christine Harrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350288500

This book explores and builds on the extraordinary work of Professor Paul Black across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects. This book explores the influence that Black has had within educational settings focusing on interpretations of the work and scholarship he has achieved across a range of settings and on the ways scholars, who have worked with him or been influenced by his ideas, have developed their research and teaching. The contributions are presented under three thematic sections, each of which reflects a set of shared educational concerns and values drawing on the natural and social sciences and developments in public policy. These concerns and values, with their emphasis on teacher assessment, provide a basis for a strategic, informed and coherent response to challenges in education, such as the cancellation of public examinations in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.