Assessing Student Understanding in Science A Standards-Based K-12 Handbook

`This is a great book! It provides real examples for teachers, school districts, and teacher education programmes to assess science standards in the curriculum′ - Fred Bartelheim, College of Education, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley

This book is packed full of different methods for assessing science standards. It contains alternative assessments and rubrics. It supports the National Science Education Standards of the National Research Council (NCR) and the guidelines in Science for All Americans of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

There are also sections and ideas for teachers to evaluate their own curriculum and instruction against the standards and to improve them. Examples created by practicing teachers are provided.