Newly Updated! Deepen students' science knowledge through formative assessment.
Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that support conceptual understanding. Page Keeley, a nationally known expert in science education, wrote Science Formative Assessment to help educators weave formative assessment into daily instruction and learning. In the second edition, the author provides many new examples, links the strategies to current research as well as the Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards, and even shows how these same techniques can be used across other disciplines.
Teachers will appreciate 75 formative assessment classroom techniques (FACTs) that include:
Descriptions of how each FACT promotes learning and informs instruction
Charts linking K-12 core concepts and scientific practices to the 75 FACTs
Implementation guidance, such as required materials and student grouping
Modifications for different learners and grade spans
Links to use in other content areas, including a brief example
Use Science Formative Assessment with any science curriculum or state standards to improve and enhance teaching and learning in K-12 science classrooms.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs)
What Does a Formative Assessment-Centered Classroom Look Like?
Why Use FACTs?
How Does Research Support the Use of FACTs?
Classroom Environments That Support Formative Assessment
Connecting Teaching and Learning
Understanding Misconceptions in Science: Misconceptions About Misconceptions
Making the Shift to a Formative Assessment-Centered Classroom
Connections to Current State Standards, A Framework for K-12 Science Education, Next Generation Science Standards, and Literacy Capacities
Chapter 2: Connecting FACTs to Instruction and Learning
Integrating Assessment and Instruction
Assessment That Promotes Thinking and Learning
Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning: The Science Assessment, Instruction, and Learning (SAIL) Cycle
Stages in the SAIL Cycle
Engagement and Readiness
Eliciting Prior Knowledge
Exploration and Discovery
Concept and Skill Development
Concept and Skill Transfer
Self-Assessment and Reflection
Selecting and Using FACTs to Strengthen the Link Between Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
Chapter 3: Considerations for Selecting, Implementing, and Using Data From FACTs
Selecting FACTs
Selecting FACTs to Match Learning Goals and Standards
FACTs and Core Disciplinary Content
FACTs and the Scientific and Engineering Practices
Selecting FACTs to Match Teaching Goals
The Critical Importance of Classroom Context in Selecting FACTs
Planning to Use and Implement FACTs
Starting Off With Small Steps
Maintaining and Extending Implementation
25 Way to Lead Learning About Formative Assessment
Using Data From the FACTs
Chapter 4: Get the FACTs! 75 Science Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs)
1. A&D Statements
2. Agreement Circles
3. Annotated Student Drawings
4. Card Sorts
5. CCC-Collaborative Clued Corrections
6. Chain Notes
7. Commit and Toss
8. Concept Card Mapping
9. Concept Cartoons
10. Data Match
11. Directed Paraphrasing
12. Explanation Analysis
13. Fact First Questioning
14. Familiar Phenomenon Probes
15. First Word-Last Word
16. Fishbowl Think Aloud
17. Fist to Five
18. Focused Listing
19. Four Corners
20. Frayer Model
21. Friendly Talk Probes
22. Give Me Five
23. Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning
24. Human Scattergraph
25. Informal Student Interviews
26. Interest Scale
27. I Think-We Think
28. I Used to Think . . . But Now I Know
29. Juicy Questions
30. Justified List
31. Justified True or False Statements
32. K-W-L Variations
33. Learning Goals Inventory (LGI)
34. Look Back
35. Missed Conception
36. Muddiest Point
37. No-Hands Questioning
38. Odd One Out
39. Paint the Picture
40. Partner Speaks
41. Pass the Question
42. A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
43. P-E-O Probes (Predict, Explain, Observe)
44. POMS-Point of Most Significance
45. Popsicle Stick Questioning
46. Prefacing
47. PVF-Paired Verbal Fluency
48. Question Generating
49. Recognizing Exceptions
50. Refutations
51. Representation Analysis
52. RERUN
53. Scientists' Ideas Comparison
54. Sequencing Cards
55. Sticky Bars
56. STIP-Scientific Terminology Inventory Probe
57. Student Evaluation of Learning Gains
58. Synectics
59. Ten-Two
60. Thinking Log
61. Think-Pair-Share
62. Thought Experiments
63. Three-Minute Pause
64. Three-Two-One
65. Traffic Light Cards
66. Traffic Light Cups
67. Traffic Light Dots
68. Two-Minute Paper
69. Two or Three Before Me
70. Two Stars and a Wish
71. Two-Thirds Testing
72. Volleyball-Not Ping-Pong!
73. Wait Time Variations
74. What Are You Doing and Why?
75. Whiteboarding
Appendix: Annotated Resources for Science Formative Assessment
References
Index
