Assessing Middle School Students’ Content Knowledge And Reasoning Through Written Scientific Explanations

by: Katherine L. McNeill and Joseph S. Krajcik

In this chapter, the authors discuss an instructional framework for scientific explanations, provide a set of rubrics to assess student work, illustrate types of feedback to give students, and describe how to develop assessment tasks to assess students’ written scientific explanations.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/1/2008Stock # PB219X_6

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