A Design-Based Approach to Developing Rubrics That Support Teachers' Understanding of the Next Generation Science Standards Practices

• In Event: Professional Development Assessment

Abstract

With the advent of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a core aspect of current science education is a significant shift in pedagogy away from students memorizing discrete facts to actually doing science in the classroom. Unfortunately, there is a lack of NGSS-aligned tools that have been systematically field-tested in real education contexts that support these shifts. Anchored in Improvement Science theory in the context of a Networked Improvement Community (NIC), this presentation provides a rich, descriptive account of the complex nature of designing standards-aligned tools that are effective in real education contexts, what Improvement Science and authentic practitioner participation looks like in practice, and the organizing role of a NIC in accelerating and widely scaling these improvements.

Authors

• Rachelle DiStefano, California State University - East Bay

• Christine Sue-Jeung Lee, California State University - East Bay

• Corinne Lardy, California State University - East Bay

• Michele Ann Korb, California State University - East Bay

• Danika LeDuc, California State University - East Bay