Assessment

Assessing Inquiry

This comes from the book Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards.

Assessment and Evaluation - Middle Level Science

This website provides a guide to four phases of assessment: preparation, assessment, evaluation, and reflection.

Assessment Strategies to Inform Science and Mathematics Instruction

This is a free online book by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. (PDF format)

Alternative Assessments for Science Teaching

This website provides strategies for science teaching and assessment. Some of these strategies include role-playing, use of instructional technology, plays, posters, mysteries, and much more.

Assessment Ideas for the Elementary Classroom

This website provides various strategies in elementary science, such as peer and group evaluation, portfolios, and interviews.

Concept Mapping

This website provides a free concept mapping program for educators that can be used by teachers and students for assessment. (Click on downloaded bubble to download program)

Elementary and Middle School Science Process Assessments

This website provides science process skills assessment ideas.

Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) K-12

This website is an online, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed by National Science Education Standards and selected state standards.

Science Rubrics K-12

This website provides example rubrics or you can build your own rubric using their tools.

Stanford Education Science Performance Assessments

This website provides examples of proven performance assessments (click on assessments/instruments)

Using Concept Maps in the Science Classroom

This website provides an article from Science Scope demonstrating how concept maps can be used as an assessment tool.