Newly Updated! Deepen students science knowledge through formative assessment. Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that support conceptual understanding. Page Keeley, a nationally known expert in science education, wroteScience Formative Assessmentto help educators weave formative assessment into daily instruction and learning. In the second edition, the author provides many new examples, links the strategies to current research as well as the Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards, and even shows how these same techniques can be used across other disciplines. Teachers will appreciate 75 formative assessment classroom techniques (FACTs) that include: Descriptions of how each FACT promotes learning and informs instructionCharts linking K-12 core concepts and scientific practices to the 75 FACTsImplementation guidance, such as required materials and student groupingModifications for different learners and grade spansLinks to use in other content areas, including a brief example UseScience Formative Assessmentwith any science curriculum or state standards to improve and enhance teaching and learning in K-12 science classrooms.

 

 

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published in 2015 by SAGE Publications Inc .