Formative Assessment Probes: Representing Microscopic Life

by: Page Keeley

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe "Pond Water," which reveals how elementary children will often apply what they know about animal structures to newly discovered microscopic organisms, connecting their knowledge of the familiar to the unfamiliar through overgeneralization.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2011Stock # sc11_049_04_28Volume 049Issue 04

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