Assessment Educational Resources

Assessment Educational Resources

Assessment

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.

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- 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.
- Saskatchewan Department of Education provides background information on the necessity for, and value of, assessment in science. Also provides examples for authentic assessment.
- Offering a description of a range of techniques for science assessment, the site also contains links to further information.
- Examples are provided, for year 2 to 6, of templates for science assessment.
- Sample tasks are provided for authentic assessment, along with rationale, teachers notes and equipment lists.
- Short discussion on issues in science assessment, based on CELA's project on Mathematics and Science Literacy.
- Academic paper, discusses issues such as adaptive testing, figural response testing, computer simulations and anchored assessment.
- Review of book is provided, explains the target audience, pricing and availability.
- Presented by the Alaska Department of Education, the site provides descriptions, diagrams and links.
- Brief document which discusses issues in science assessment.
- Model for the evaluation of theses from 4 quality axes: theoretical, logical, semantical and methodological.
- Resources to help educators and their students prepare to be assessed.

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