Formative Assessment and Science Education

• Main Authors: Bell, Beverley. (Author), Cowie, Bronwen. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Series: Science & Technology Education Library, 12
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Assessment.; Science Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Learning & Instruction.; Education, general.
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Formative Assessment and Science Education documents the findings of a research project which investigated the ways in which teachers and students used formative assessment to improve the teaching and learning of science in some New Zealand classrooms. The research documented in this book used the d...

Table of Contents:

• A Review of the Relevant Literature
• A Case Study of Formative Assessment
• The Characteristics of Formative Assessment
• A Model of Formative Assessment
• Cameos of Formative Assessment
• Learning and Formative Assessment
• Doing Formative Assessment.