Levels of literacy and assessing students

This chapter has a LOT of information in it but I will focus on two things I felt were useful. The author provides definitions for levels of scientific inquiry that we can apply to our stude... See More

This chapter has a LOT of information in it but I will focus on two things I felt were useful. The author provides definitions for levels of scientific inquiry that we can apply to our students to assess if we are teaching them to be useful citizens. The other interesting thing was looking at the results of the environmental awareness questions presented in the 2006 PISA assessment. This provides teachers who are interested in making students environmentally aware of issues a general idea of what middle level students in the US and world think of some of the major issues to confront the world presently and in the future. Based on this analysis, teachers can better design curriculum to make students more aware of issues.