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Teaching Children Science Book Cover
Teaching Children Science: A Project-Based Approach, 2/e
Joe Krajcik, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Charlene Czerniak, University of Toledo
Carl Berger, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

How is Student Understanding Assessed?

Learning Objectives

1

Explain the steps a teacher can use to assess student growth and achievement.

2

Create assessments using different strategies to measure content, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge.

3

Compare and contrast the reasons for using various types of assessment.

4

Describe how a teacher can determine if a test or quiz is well constructed.

5

Justify why artifacts and portfolios should be consistent with goals in a project-based environment.

6

Design a scoring rubric to evaluate a performance.

7

Explain the value of assessment for teachers, students, and parents.