Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Assessment in Science: A Guide to Professional Development and Classroom Practice.- Section I.- 2. A Professional Development Framework for Collaborating with Teachers to Change Classroom Assessment Practice.- 3. The NRC Standards as a Tool in the Professional Development of Science Teachers Assessment Knowledge and Practice.- 4. Facilitating Change in Classroom Assessment Practice: Issues for Professional Development.- 5. Thinking about Assessment: An Example from an Elementary Classroom.- 6. A Framework for Thinking about and Planning Classroom Assessments in Science.- Section II.- 7. Assessment for Emergent Science Literacy in Classrooms for Young Children.- 8. Tools for Assessing and Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School.- 9. Assessing Children’s Science Learning and Process Skills in the Elementary Classroom.- 10. Pedagogical-Assessment Activities in a Middle School Life Science Classroom.- 11. The Multidimensional Assessment of Student Performance in Middle School Science.- 12. Developing and Using Diagnostic and Summative Assessments to Determine Students’ Conceptual Understanding in a Junior High School Earth Science Classroom.- 13. Alternatives to Teaching and Assessing in A High School Chemistry Classroom: Computer Animations and Other Forms of Visualization.- 14. Authentic Assessment in High School Science: A Classroom Perspective.- Section III.- 15. What We Have Learned: A Summary of Chapter Themes.- Notes on Contributors.- Author Index.

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