Description
Use this catagory for resources that pertain to the assessment of science education. These are methods or materials which generate an indication of mastery for the subject or topic.
Use this catagory for resources that pertain to the assessment of science education. These are methods or materials which generate an indication of mastery for the subject or topic.
- A Collection of Assessment Strategies - Presented by the Alaska Department of Education, the site provides descriptions, diagrams and links.
- Assessment in Science Education: The Middle Years - Review of book is provided, explains the target audience, pricing and availability.
- Assigning Value: Science Assessment - Brief document which discusses issues in science assessment.
- Bringing the Science Assessment Standards into the Classroom - Short discussion on issues in science assessment, based on CELA's project on Mathematics and Science Literacy.
- Computer-Based Science Assessment : Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities - Academic paper, discusses issues such as adaptive testing, figural response testing, computer simulations and anchored assessment.
- Miami Museum of Science-Alternative Assessment Definitions - Offering a description of a range of techniques for science assessment, the site also contains links to further information.
- Middle Level Science: Assessment and Evaluation - Saskatchewan Department of Education provides background information on the necessity for, and value of, assessment in science. Also provides examples for authentic assessment.
- Performance Assessment for Science Teachers - Sample tasks are provided for authentic assessment, along with rationale, teachers notes and equipment lists.
- Performance Assessment Links in Science - Requiring free registration, the site provides an on-line, standards-based, resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks.
- Quality Evaluation of University Theses - Model for the evaluation of theses from 4 quality axes: theoretical, logical, semantical and methodological.
- Scholastic - Assessment - Resources to help educators and their students prepare to be assessed.
- Science Records of Achievement and Self Assessment - Examples are provided, for year 2 to 6, of templates for science assessment.
