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2. What are two (of three) main purposes for assessing student learning? Clue: One type is “diagnostic”

3. Formative and Summative

4. Complete the blanks in the two statements below: 1. Assessment student learning is formative assessment. 2. Assessment student learning is summative assessment. Hint: Think Prepositions!

5. 1. Of 2. For

6. What type of assessment is well suited for assessing FACTUAL knowledge? 1. Selected Response 2. Academic Prompts 3. Performance 4. Personal Interview

7. 1. Selected Response

8. What does it mean to plan SYSTEMATICALLY for student learning?

9. 1. Align objectives to assess with standards (RIGSE). 2. Identify a variety assessments- type, purpose, how evidence is collected. 3. Schedule assessments.

10. Why is learner self-assessment in science considered metacognition?

11. Learners monitor progress in scientific thinking and plan for future learning.

12. Identify the name of the performance standards that the RI Department of Education uses to make judgments about their learning of science? Hint: R I G S E in S

13. Rhode Island Grade Span Expectations in Science

14. In planning a balanced science curriculum, what are 3 sub-disciplines of science that children should learn.

15. Life, Earth/Space, Physical

16. Where in Rhode Island can school districts find a “materials resource center” - a system of delivering hands on science instructional materials for each teacher in a school--at the right time, to the right teacher, in near new condition?

17. East Bay Educational Collaborative in Warren RI

18. What do the letters of FOSS and STC represent? NOTE: These are two exemplary curriculum of science instructional materials that are researched and developed -- applying what we know about how children learn.

19. FOSS = Full Option Science System STC = Science and Technology for Children

20. What’s the purpose of a scientist notebook for the student and for the teacher?

21. For students: to improve scientific thinking and communication For teachers: a source of assessment information --“a window into the minds of the student”

22. True or False: All hands on science is considered inquiry science. Explain your answer.

23. False. Hands on science provides students with first hand, direct experience with objects and phenomena. A teacher can turn hands on science into inquiry science by integrating a scientist notebook.

24. What are two science process skills applied during inquiry science?

25. Observing and Predicting

26. What phase of a cycle of using the scientist notebook is this writing prompt used? I know this to be true: Here’s the evidence.

27. Claims and Evidence

28. List sequentially the seven phases of a cycle of a scientist notebook.

29. 1. Focus Question 2. Prediction 3. Planning 4. Data/Observations 5. Claims and Evidence 6. Conclusion 7. Next Steps/New Questions

30. Name two scientific attitudes that students develop when they are engaged in inquiry science. NOTE: The answer IS NOT “positive attitudes” even though it’s a true statement.

31. --Desiring knowledge (curiosity) --Willingness to modify explanations

32. Identify the type of activity that teachers should plan for students at the beginning of a unit of instruction -- a series of science classes -- around a central topic, theme, or science idea?

33. An activity that enables learners to confront prior knowledge-- such as a pre-assessment.

34. After students record data or observations in a data organizer, what action does a teacher take before they make claims supported with evidence? Hint: It’s NOT “Go to Dunkin Donuts and get a cup of coffee”

35. Conduct a “making meaning conference” -Facilitate with questioning. -Cause students to interpret data, to identify a pattern by comparing and contrasting.

36. When is it appropriate to use a “content blast” while using scientist notebooks?

37. --After students experience the material or phenomena directly. --When you want to extend knowledge from a hands on experience, after Data Observations. --When you want to clarify an idea.

38. What are two cooperative learning strategies used by teachers to encourage social interaction and collaboration?

39. 1. Turn and Talk 2. Assign Tasks and Roles -- Rotate Roles

40. During whole class discussions, what strategy do teachers use? Why do the use this strategy?

41. Strategy: Popsicle Stick or Roll the Dice. Why? Teachers use this method to encourage ALL learners to think simultaneously.

42. Complete this Chinese Proverb: I hear, I forget I see, I remember I do, I __________

43. Understand!

44. Fill in the blank in this quote from the National Science Education Standards: “ is something students do, Not something that is done to them.”

45. Learning science

46. Fill in the blank: “Scientists discover the world that exists! _______create the world that never was!”

47. Engineers

48. Complete this quote by Henry David Thoreau: “We reason from our hands to our “

49. MIND!

50. Who said during several times this semester: “Hands on is the preferred approach to learning science. Pictorial and symbolic approaches are useful in extending knowledge after a direct experience with objects and phenomena-or when hands on learning is impractical.” ????

51. Dr. Kniseley!