Do the test questions you write or find to assess your students’ science knowledge adequately reach all students and reflect their true understanding?
The Science Education Department at Harvard University invites you to participate in an NSF funded project to test a novel collaborative system for the development and validation of high-quality assessment items. Using this “citizen science” approach, teachers can volunteer their favorite items and help improve existing ones from our MOSART inventory. Crucial item characteristics such as difficulty, effectiveness, gender and racial/ethnic bias will be measured by psychometric analysis and reported back to you. We’ll send you the results of your questions or of revisions you’ve made to ours.
We will be reviewing items over the course of this year that address each of the following NGSS Performance Expectations categories:
1. MS-PS1 Matter and Its Interactions
2. MS-PS2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
3. MS-PS3 Energy
4. MS-PS4 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
As a thank you for your help, we will provide a Harvard-Smithsonian Certificate of Appreciation for your efforts and will share with you our results as we move forward with this project. You will also be able to use those and other questions from our free MOSART resource.
If you are interested in participating in this project titled CONSTRUCT, please reply by answering a few brief questions at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2tUFcEMTUaayjRQ .
Please share with colleagues that may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected].
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