What do science teachers consider when selecting formative assessment tasks?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1113-1130

  Tomanek, Debra ^a   Talanquer, Vicente ^a   Novodvorsky, Ingrid ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative assessment; Teacher cognition; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TASKS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT; FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; SCIENCE TEACHERS; TEACHER COGNITION; TEACHER EDUCATION; TEACHING EXPERIENCES;

CURRICULA; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 57249111663     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20247     Document Type: Article

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