Measuring the Next Generation Science Standards in the Classroom: Embedded Assessment in the ChemVlab+

• In Event: Poster Session 9
  In Poster Session: New Developments in Psychometrics, Measurement, and Assessment: Poster Session 1

Abstract

Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards (National Research Council, 2014) advocates assessing the practices, crosscutting concepts and core ideas of K-12 science by developing “multicomponent tasks.” We report on the development and testing of the ChemVlab+ modules that teach and assess high school stoichiometry and thermodynamics through interactive tasks with an embedded assessment system. Results indicate that the embedded assessments are highly reliable in measuring the overall constructs and at the level of sub-dimensions. This enables their use in a formative manner where the system reports to students on their personal progress in learning the topics as well as providing summary information to teachers to allow them to adapt instruction and thereby improve student learning.

Authors

• Michael Timms, Australian Council for Educational Research

• Jodi Davenport, WestEd

• Cheryl J. Schwab, University of California - Berkeley

• Anna Rafferty, University of California - Berkeley

• David Yaron, Carnegie Mellon University