The current educational reform policy discourse takes for granted the central role of using
data to improve instruction. Yet whether and how data inform instruction depends on …

The pedagogical potential of classroom assessment to support student learning has
increasingly been evidenced in research over the past decade. Constructive classroom …

Involving stakeholders throughout the creation of new educational technologies can help
ensure their usefulness and usability in real-world contexts. However, given the complexity …

The purpose of this study was to (a) develop an analytical framework that represents
classroom talk and questioning in science,(b) find out how teachers use questioning to …

Researchers in the learning sciences have explored a collaborative approach to developing
innovations that fit into real classroom contexts. The co-design process relies on teachers' …

Few studies have focused on peer assessment at the secondary school level. Consequently,
we know very little about the quality of the feedback secondary school students can produce …

The purpose of this study was to investigate how concept cartoons, together with other
diagnostic and scaffolding tools, could be used in formative assessment, to stimulate talk …

Based on strong research literatures, we conjectured that social processing of feedback by
cooperating in a small group setting—with social incentives to ask questions, give …

Assessment is an integral part of teaching. If teaching is understood to be more than merely
presenting information, then teaching is interactive and adaptive and necessarily involves …

Two international leaders offer important insights into the ways in which the discipline of
science education has developed and how school curriculum has been shaped by both …