Read about ASK in a New NSTA Publication

FOSS Project staff Kathy Long, Larry Malone, and Linda De Lucchi contributed a chapter to the NSTA publication Assessing Science Learning: Perspectives from Research and Practice. The volume was released last summer. The FOSS-authored chapter, entitled "Assessing Science Knowledge: Seeing More through the Formative Assessment Lens," grows out of the NSF-funded Assessing Science Knowledge Project (ASK). It describes the emerging classroom assessment system that will become a part of FOSS in the next revision.

The chapter focuses on classroom assessment practice with emphasis placed on embedded diagnostic assessment. "The goal of embedded assessment is to monitor and guide student progress toward understanding of complex scientific process and ideas. Embedded assessment activities require teachers and students to rethink their responsibilities in the classroom learning community and to (ideally) redefine the teacher/student and student/student relationships." Copies can be ordered from NSTA at:
http://www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/9781933531403.