The ABCs of Assessment

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This short article discusses aligning assessment with instruction. It offers ideas on how to evaluate the effectiveness of any given assessment activity, stressing authentic assessment, or making the testing relate to students real world experiences. There is an example of a high school biology performance assessment task, and a discussion of portfolio evaluation. There is also a discussion devoted to predict and explain assessment.

Summary

Subject keyword(s)	Assessment of students, Astronomy, Cognitive gains, Education, Education (General), Educational theory and practice, Evaluation data collection, General evaluation information, Science process skills, Space Science, Space sciences, Teaching practices
Grade level	Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Vocational/Professional Development Education
Intended audience	Educator
Resource type	Assessment Materials, Instructional Material, Reference Material, Text
Resource format	application, application/pdf
Rights	Copyright and other restriction information is unknown.

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