Thursday, March 12, 2009

NAEP Tries Interactive Assessment That Tests Students' Ability to Formulate & Perform Experiments

today (Mar. 12) that the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science test, which has been administered across the nation in recent weeks, includes an interactive computer feature, given to a subset of children. This section of the test aims to assess student skills and understanding, such as "the ability to formulate and and perform experiments," that cannot easily be tested in other ways.

The new NAEP test has students making decisions and drawing conclusions based on data stemming from experiments. This, test writers hope, allows for "a better measure of depth of knowledge."

This may prove to be a way to combine skills, conceptual understanding, and objectivity.

7 comments:

  1. what a great post! i really like it and wanted to say thanks for sharing!

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  2. That's was so great idea to check students ability before get admission in 12th standard or further studies,i think this was best article from all of your posting.

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  3. YA its absolutely right to check out students ability is he able to get admission on 12th standard or not,thanks NAEP for thinking on such a great and most important matter.

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  4. U.S. department of education takes a very good step,this step make students future more secure.Great thinking towards youth of America.

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  5. Nice to read this great article that US government thinks for youth of students its a great step to make your people educated and intelligent to take your country at top.

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  6. National Assessment of Educational Progress work very well by this they can able to make students future more strong and also students who really able to learn science get a chance to move forward.

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