Assessment of Understanding and Inquiry

What question makes an outstanding teacher?

• How am I doing?

• How are my students doing?

• How am I doing and how are my students doing?

• What should I do to improve?

All activities within a lesson should have a predetermined learning outcome.

• Agree

• Disagree

NGSS science assessments need to be administered in:

• Multiple and varied assessment formats.

• Standard based assessment format.

• a method that tests memorization skills.

• allows students to interact with phenomena.

Assessment types

A portfolio is an organized collection of a student's work representing the best he or she can do. A portfolio can include which of the following? (select all that apply)

• Children rubrics from writing class

• Written observations and science reports

• Thank you letters to people who have visited the classroom

• Teachers lesson handout

Students comments, smiles, frowns, in-class behavior,and out-of-class behavior reveal a great deal about whether they are developing favorable attitudes toward science and your teaching.

• True

• False

Science Notebooks:

• Allow for more reflection and less structure

• Allow students a way to shed their perspective on science

• Can allow a teacher with ways to individually assess students progress

• All of the Above

We as educators need to stimulate children's ability to self assess

• Agree

• Disagree

• Unsure

Formative assessments: ( select all that apply)

• Keep you from being surprised when plans falter and allow you time to adjust and redirect a lesson

• Answer the question "What did the students learn?"

• are used to assist teaching and learning

• are used for the purpose of placement, grading, accountability and informing parents and teachers of student performance

Summative assessments: ( select all that apply)

• Keep you from being surprised when plans falter and allow you time to adjust and redirect a lesson

• Answer the question "What did the students learn?"

• are used to assist teaching and learning

• are used for the purpose of placement, grading, accountability and informing parents and teachers of student performance