Assessment

The authour of this article called Methods of Assessment focuses on aligning assessments closely with the instructional strategies actually used with students.

This article entitled Facing and Embracing the Assessment Challenge was written by a science education specialist at the Eisenhauer National Clearinghouse. There are numerous links to other articles on assessment.

This Chapter of the National Science Education Standards on Assessments in Science Education provide criteria to judge the progress toward the Standards' vision for scientific literacy for all.

Here is a Collection of Assessment Strategies form the Alaska Department of Education

Perfomance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks.

Links to a host of other international, national, state, and school district web pages at the Perfomance Assessment Tasks site.

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