1. How do we assess the process of science skills?
Two components for the focus of this discussion:
Doing the process of science
The understanding of how we know what we know (how scientists know what they know).
Misconception: experimentation is not the only way of knowing. Students come into a lab environment with a traditional method of investigating a problem.
We need to expand on the discussion of how to encourage students to describe how they know what they know…
By: Pre- and Post assessment of a data visualization through observation, interpretation, and understanding the methods of how the data was collected.
Measuring observation through description of the data by first using a non-science example (a cartoon) and then move to a science example.
What evidence would be convincing to an instructor that a student understands interpretation? The interpretation will depend on the level of preconceptions students have.