Active Assessment: Assessing Scientific Inquiry

Active Assessment describes an innovative approach to the assessment of scientific inquiry. The approach is termed active assessment and is based on the idea that scientist-educators can create authentic assessments that enhance engagement in the educational process and provide meaningful assessment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jacobs-Sera, Debbie. (Author), Hatfull, Graham F. (Author), Hanauer, David I. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Series:Mentoring in Academia and Industry ; 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Section One: The Theory and Practice of Active Assessment
  • Active Assessment
  • Conceptualizing Scientific Inquiry
  • Contextualized Performance Based Assessment Tools
  • A Framework for the Development of a Contextualized and Comprehensive Assessment Strategy for Undergraduate Scientific Inquiry
  • Section Two: Assessing the Scientific Inquiry Process of the Isolation and Genomic Annotation of Novel Bacteriophage (The PHIRE Program): An Assessment Case Study
  • A Description of the Phage Hunting Integrating Research and Education (PHIRE) Program
  • The PHIRE Program Assessment Strategy
  • PHIRE Assessment Tools
  • A Researcher-Educators Experience of Active Assessment.