Lindley Hanson's List: Science Education - articles

A 2007 National Academy of Sciences report echoed that point. It called for innovative methods to teach children about the process of science, as well as its content. Current educational approaches have yielded depressingly poor scores for U.S. students on international assessments of science knowledge.

A report in the Jan. 30 Science upped the urgency of the NAS recommendation to focus on process. It found that although Chinese college freshmen knew substantially more about physics laws and principles than their U.S. peers, both groups performed poorly on a test of scientific reasoning skills.

Ne(x)tGen Course - Faculty Resources

"What are CATs?

Classroom Assessment Techniques are formative evaluation methods that serve two purposes. They can help you to assess the degree to which your students understand the course content and they can provide you with information about the effectiveness of your teaching methods. Most are designed to be quick and easy to use and each CAT provides different kinds of information.
Formative Evaluations

Formative evaluations provide information that can be used to improve course content, methods of teaching, and, ultimately, student learning. Formative evaluations are most effective when they are done frequently and the information is used to effect immediate adjustments in the day-to-day operations of the course. Some faculty incorporate a CAT into every class session. "