Formative Assessment Probes: Mountaintop Fossil: A Puzzling Phenomenon

by: Page Keeley

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue describes using formative assement probes to uncover several ways of thinking about the puzzling discovery of a marine fossil on top of a mountain.

Grade Levels

Elementary

Topics

Assessment Earth & Space Science Phenomena Teaching Strategies

Details

Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2015Stock # sc15_053_04_24Volume 053Issue 04

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