ASTE 2013

Continuous Formative Assessment During Science Instruction

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP; Friday, January 11; 2-4PM

Norman E. Herr, Brian Foley, & Michael Rivas, California State University, Northridge

Summary: Workshop participants will learn how to use free cloud-based collaborative online documents to perform continuous formative assessment

Collecting & Analyzing Data Instantly

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Use Wolfram Alpha to obtain distances and temperatures.

• Map using Batchgeo

  • • Map participant institutions

• View Participant Data

  • • Rank Name popularity

    • Rank Date of peak popularity

    • Carbon footprint

    • Temperature vs. Latitude

• Analyze Participant Data

  • • Analyze specializations, subjects, student background

• Sample activity from class

Formative Assessments

• Formative Assessments

• Collaboration Practice

• Introduction - What is CSCS?

• Institute for Science Education

Quickwrites - Formative Assessment with Text

• Examples

  • Spontaneous class quickwrites

    • Prepared: Significance of Chemistry

• Add input to this collaborative quickwrite as requested by the instructor.

Quickdraws - Formative Assessment with Photos, Drawings & Diagrams

• Scanned drawings

  • Example: Wavelength of light

  • Example: Map drawing

• Collaborative Presentations (e.g. geological features, landmarks)

• Collaborative Drawings (e.g. science & state symbols)

Collaborative Investigations

• Collaborative experiments

  • What in the Universe?

    • Genetic traits | Results

    • Dihybrid Genetics lab - survey - results - photos

    • Reaction time - survey - results

    • Density / Buoyancy - results

  • Period of a Pendulum

  • Determining the wavelength of Light