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Effective Assessment Strategies for Science Education

Explore various assessment methods and questions to ensure engaging lessons and student learning in science education.

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Effective Assessment Strategies for Science Education

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  1. EPE Experiences, Patterns and Explanations

  2. EPE

  3. EPE

  4. EPE

  5. EPE Table

  6. An Example - Photosynthesis

  7. An Example - Photosynthesis

  8. An Example - Photosynthesis

  9. An Example - Photosynthesis

  10. An Example - Photosynthesis

  11. An Example - Photosynthesis

  12. An Example - Photosynthesis

  13. An Example - Photosynthesis

  14. Guidelines Are your Experiences: • specific real-world objects, systems, or phenomena, not the concepts we use to explain them? For example, “light-dependent reactions” is not a good real-world example for photosynthesis. “Plants not growing in the dark” is. • experientially real to your students? They should be either systems or phenomena that your students have already experienced or that you could help them experience, first hand or vicariously.

  15. Guidelines Coherence • Do your Experiences, Patterns, and Explanations fit into a coherent whole? • Your observations, patterns, and explanations should be connected to one another. For example, each model or theory that you list should have observations and patterns to go with it. • Do your E’s, P’s and E’s make sense with respect to the inquiry and application arrows?

  16. Guidelines Connecting to Big Ideas • Are your observations, patterns, and explanations connected to your big ideas? • The key models, laws, and theories in the big ideas statement should be listed in summary form in the last column of your table.

  17. EPE Experiences, Patterns and ExplanationsJoyce’s Pedigree Lesson

  18. Assessment

  19. Assessment • We should be doing it every time we teach. • Needs to match the objectives. • It should inform the teacher about adjustments that need to be made. • It should also inform the students.

  20. Assessment Consider a range of assessment methods: • Performance tasks / Projects • Quizzes, tests • Observations, work samples, dialogues • Student self assessment

  21. Assessment Questions to ask yourself: • Have you included the actual questions that students will answer or prompts they will be able to respond to? • Will you learn from incorrect answers? • Is the task relevant to the objective? Does it engage students in the practice described in your focus objective(s)? • Is the task worded in a way that will be clear to the students? Will they understand what you are asking? • Would a good answer to the task require students to relate some of the experiences, patterns and explanations?

  22. AssessmentJoyce’s Pedigree Lesson

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