ch.6 reflections

CH.6: ASSESING SCIENCE LEARNING


This chapter is very interesting. It deals with and it’s main theme and theory is assessing a student during science. Critical questions that should be answered are what, how, and how well science is learned by a student. Practical approaches to science are three types of assessing. Diagnostic which is the before teaching assessment; summative which is the after teaching assessment, and formative which is the during teaching assessment. Many different principles can be applied to assessing. Teachers should ask the questions: Where are the students going, and what are they learning now. Both national and state goals should be a big part in the assessing process. Assessment will help guide teachers into helping their students reach their goals in the science curriculum.

This chapter is a great tool to use when assessing the science subject. It is our jobs to ask questions and assess what are students are doing. As a future teacher, I not only have to ask these certain questions to see how my student’s development is, but I also have to go by the state standards and national standards. This will further help teachers understand the individual development of each student and where to help them improve. I feel that this chapter was very clear as to how to assess students and to what guidelines teachers should follow. I have no need to ask a question for this chapter; it was all clarifying information.