Assessment in Science: A Guide to Professional Development and Classroom Practice

Acknowledgements. Dedication. 1. Introduction to Assessment in Science: A Guide to Professional Development and Classroom Practice; D.P. Shepardson. Section I. 2. A Professional Development Framework for Collaborating with Teachers to Change Classroom Assessment Practice; D.P. Shepardson. 3. The NRC Standrads as a Tool in the Professional Development of Science Teachers Assessment Knowledge and Practice; E.S. Gummer, D.P. Shepardson. 4. Facilitating Change in Classroom Assessment Practice: Issues for Professional Development; E.S. Gummer, D.P. Shepardson. 5. Thinking about Assessment: An Example from an Elementary Classroom; D.P. Shepardson. 6. A Framework for Thinking about and Planning Classroom Assessments in Science; D.P. Shepardson, E.S. Gummer. Section II. 7. Assessment for Emergent Science Literacy in Classrooms for Young Children; S.J. Britsch. 8. Tools for Assessing and Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School; D.P. Shepardson, S.J. Britsch. 9. Assessing Children's Science Learning and Process Skills in the Elementary Classroom; B. Main. 10. Pedagogical-Assessment Activities in a Middle School Life Science Classroom; M. Edwards. 11. The Multidimensional Assessment of Student Performance in Middle School Science; V. Jackson. 12. Developing and Using Diagnostic and Summative Assessments to Determine Students' Conceptual Understanding in a Junior High School Earth Science Classroom; T. Leuenberger. 13. Alternatives to Teaching and Assessing in a High School Chemistry Classroom: Computer Animations and Other Forms of Visualization; V. Flick. 14. Authentic Assessment in High School Science: A Classroom Perspective; D.E. Emery. Section III. 15. What Have We Learned: A Summary of Chapter Themes; D.P. Shepardson. Notes on Contributors. First Author Index. Subject Index.