Weaving Science Inquiry and Continuous Assessment: Using Formative Assessment to Improve Learning [Paperback]

By combining science inquiry and continuous assessment, you will not only catalyze meaningful changes in your students' thinking and learning, but also reflect on and enhance your own approach to teaching.

By combining science inquiry and continuous assessment, you will not only catalyze meaningful changes in your students' thinking and learning, but also reflect on and enhance your own approach to teaching.

The authors provide a rationale and practical tools for weaving continuous assessment and instruction in science into the fabric of learning. Teachers who use the methods in the book will know what and how students are learning every day and gain insights into how to best facilitate learning in their classrooms.Assessing what students know and are able to do is a major component of standards-based education and is one of the hottest topics on the educational scene. This book addresses assessment in a unique way and provides an excellent opportunity for readers to view and understand formative assessment as equal to summative assessment.This wonderful 'how-to' book offers new approaches for assessing inquiry-based teaching and learning. This book is a must for the science educators library.Foreword - Susan Mundry
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. The Essence of Continuous Assessment
2. The Context for Continuous Assessment: Student Inquiry
3. Techniques and Tools for Facilitating Inquiry and Collecting Student Data
4. Analyzing and Using Continuous Assessment Data
5. The Journey: Challenges, Realities, and Advice
6. Continuous Assessment and Professional Growth
Resource A: Techniques, Tools, and Uses of Continuous Assessment
Resource B: National Science Education Standards
Additional Reading
References
Index