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Assessing middle school students` understanding of science relationships and processes: Year 2 - instrument validation. Final report
01 Jan 1997
Abstract
Our overall purpose for this multi-year project was to develop an alternative assessment format measuring rural middle school students understanding of science concepts and processes and the interrelationships among them. This kind of understanding is called structural knowledge. We had 3 major interrelated goals: (1) Synthesize the existing literature and critically evaluate the actual and potential use of measures of structural knowledge in science education. (2) Develop a structural knowledge alternative assessment format. (3) Examine the validity of our structural knowledge format. We accomplished the first two goals during year 1. The structural knowledge assessment we identified and developed further was a select-and-fill-in concept map format. The goal for our year 2 work was to begin to validate this assessment approach. This final report summarizes our year 2 work.
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- Title
- Assessing middle school students` understanding of science relationships and processes: Year 2 - instrument validation. Final report
- Creators
- C SchauN MatternR WeberK MinnickNew Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Publisher
- United States
- Resource Type
- Report
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Other Identifier
- 991019238812604721