Science formative assessment: 75 practical strategies for linking assessment, instruction, and learning

Cover Page......Page 1
Dedication......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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About the Author
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What Does a Formative Assessment-Centered Classroom Look Like?......Page 16
Why Use FACTs?
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How Does Research Support the Use of FACTs?
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Classroom Environments That Support Formative Assessment......Page 23
Connecting Teaching and Learning
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Making the Shift to a Formative Assessment-Centered Classroom
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Integrating Assessment and Instruction
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Assessment That Promotes Thinking and Learning
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Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning: The Science Assessment, Instruction, and Learning Cycle (SAIL Cycle)......Page 33
Eliciting Prior Knowledge
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Exploration and Discovery
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Self-Assessment and Reflection
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Selecting and Using FACTs to Strengthen the Link Between Assessment, Instruction, and Learning......Page 41
Selecting FACTs to Match Learning Goals
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Selecting FACTs to Match Teaching Goals
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The Critical Importance of Classroom Context in Selecting FACTs......Page 49
Planning to Use and Implement FACTs
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Starting Off With Small Steps
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Maintaining and Extending Implementation
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Using Data From the FACTs
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4. Get the FACTs! 75 Science Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs)......Page 60
#1: A&D Statements
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#2: Agreement Circles
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#3: Annotated Student Drawings
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#4: Card Sorts
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#5: CCC—Collaborative Clued Corrections
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#6: Chain Notes
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#7: Commit and Toss
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#8: Concept Card Mapping
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#9: Concept Cartoons
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#10: Data Match
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#11: Directed Paraphrasing
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#12: Explanation Analysis
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#13: Fact First Questioning
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#14: Familiar Phenomenon Probes
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#15: First Word–Last Word
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#16: Fishbowl Think Aloud
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#17: Fist to Five
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#18: Focused Listing
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#19: Four Corners
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#20: Frayer Model
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#21: Friendly Talk Probes
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#22: Give Me Five
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#23: Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning
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#24: Human Scatterplots
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#25: Informal Student Interviews
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#26: Interest Scale
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#27: I Think–We Think
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#28: I Used to Think . . . But Now I Know
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#29: Juicy Questions
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#30: Justified List
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#31: Justified True or False Statements
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#32: K-W-L Variations
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#33: Learning Goals Inventory (LGI)
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#34: Look Back
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#35: Missed Conception
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#36: Muddiest Point
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#37: No-Hands Questioning
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#38: Odd One Out
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#39: Paint the Picture
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#40: Partner Speaks
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#41: Pass the Question
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#42: A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
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#43: P-E-O Probes (Predict, Explain, Observe)
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#44: POMS—Point of Most Significance
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#45: Popsicle Stick Questioning
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#46: Prefacing Explanations
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#47: PVF—Paired Verbal Fluency
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#48: Question Generating
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#49: Recognizing Exceptions
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#50: Refutations
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#51: Representation Analysis
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#52: RERUN
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#53: Scientists’ Ideas Comparison
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#54: Sequencing
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#55: Sticky Bars
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#56: STIP—Scientific Terminology Inventory Probe
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#57: Student Evaluation of Learning Gains
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#58: Synectics
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#59: Ten-Two
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#60: Thinking Log
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#61: Think-Pair-Share
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#62: Thought Experiments
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#63: Three-Minute Pause
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#64: Three-Two-One
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#65: Traffic Light Cards
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#66: Traffic Light Cups
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#67: Traffic Light Dots
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#68: Two-Minute Paper
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#69: Two or Three Before Me
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#70: Two Stars and a Wish
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#71: Two-Thirds Testing
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#72: Volleyball—Not Ping-Pong!
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#73: Wait Time Variations
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#74: What Are You Doing and Why?
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#75: Whiteboarding
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Appendix
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References
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Index
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