This study gives scientific investigations with the assessment scoring guides. The blueprint for each task is included and the goal is to engage student in more hands on activities.
This website gives outlines for science assessments for middle school science teachers. It discusses the theories behind them and what should be incorporated.
This report analyzes what works in middle school science classrooms. It gives elements of assessment that lead to higher performance in science such as fairness/fun, focus, foundations, fluency, and fit.
This article gives standards teachers should follow when making assessment in science education. It explains ideas such as students having the opportunity to demonstrate their achievements and knowing what is expected of them
This article provides examples for how to make assessment meaningful and useful for real life.It shows assessment as an investigation and a longer process than simply memorization.
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge - and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do.
From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach - calculation by hand - isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.