This article reports findings on growth in 3 science teachers' expertise with interpretation of
student work over 1 year of participation in a program. The program was designed to …

The Classroom Assessment Project to Improve Teaching and Learning (CAPITAL) set out to
understand how teachers attempt to modify their classroom practices as they grapple with …

This paper describes the Assessment Practices Framework and how I used it to study a high
school Chemistry teacher as she designed, implemented, and learned from a chemistry lab …

The goal of this exploratory study was to analyze how beginning prospective secondary
school teachers approached the analysis of student written responses to formative …

This paper sets out to explore science teachers' classroom assessment practices and
outlines some of the tensions and synergies in changing assessment practices. It describes …

Assessments are powerful tools for informing teachers and students about where student
thinking stands with relation to a learning goal. Yet, few studies provide qualitative analyses …

Using a framework of assessment literacy that included principles, tools, and purposes, this
study explored the assessment literacy of 11 secondary preservice teachers. Participants' …

Although research in science education has led to new assessment forms and functions, the
reality is that little work has been done to unpack and capture what it means for a teacher to …

Science educators in the United States are adapting to a new vision of how students learn
science. Children are natural explorers and their observations and intuitions about the world …

This chapter considers the theoretical and empirical foundations for assessment literacy,
proposes a model for assessment literacy, describes a case of the model in action, and …