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The Influence of Item Formats when Locating a Student on a Learning Progression in Science

2016·Jing Chen, Amelia Wenk Gotwals, Charles Anderson +1 yazar

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education·Cilt 2016/3-legacy-2502, Sayı 2

Learning progressions are used to describe how students’ understanding of a topic progresses over time. This study evaluates the effectiveness of different item formats for placing students into levels along a learning progression for carbon cycling. The item formats investigated …

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Comparing Students’ Individual Written and Collaborative Oral Socioscientific Arguments

2015·Amanda M. Knight, Katherine L. McNeill

International Journal of Environmental and Science Education·Cilt 2015/10, Sayı 5

Constructing and critiquing scientific arguments has become an increasingly important goal for science education. Yet, the differences in the ways students construct collaborative oral and individual written socioscientific arguments are not well established. Our research with one middle school class …

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