Edulastic is an online resource where teachers can customize tests using their own questions or items from its query bank. They can add technology-enhanced question types, receive real time feedback, and track student progress. Students can also show their work with the Scratchpad feature. Long-term data comparisons can display growth over time and pinpoint weak areas where instruction can be modified to improve achievement. This assessment builder has standard aligned questions geared for the Next Generation Science Standards. Both Formative and Summative assessments can be created with this free and easy to use tool. Creation of a free account is required.
Create Rigorous Science Assessments From Phenomena-Based Questions Tagged Individually with Specific NGSS Standards: Choose from Multiple Choice, Drawing, Matching, Fill in the Blank and Free Response Questions. Creation of a free account is required.
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About Our Tasks
In the Framework and NGSS, it is not what you know, but how you use and apply what you know that demonstrates proficiency. The knowledge-in-use perspective of the NGSS represents a different way of thinking about science learning in that disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts are intended to work together to enable students to reason with evidence, make sense of phenomena, and design solutions to problems. For each performance expectation in the NGSS, the three dimensions – disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts – are integrated into a single statement that represents what is to be assessed at the end of a grade level or grade band. About Our Online Task Portal Our assessment tasks are delivered through an online system that is comprised of interactive assessment tasks to meet the needs of teachers and students in increasingly diverse science classrooms. Videos and simulations, for instance, are incorporated into some of the assessment tasks to create authentic and engaging scenarios and also reduce literacy demands; stamps and drawing tools are included to help students more easily express ideas and formulate responses; and scaffolds, such as prompts to support students in constructing explanations and building models, are intended to help students who are making early steps toward a set of performance expectations. Using NGSA Tasks in the Classroom Our tasks are intended to be used to support teaching and learning in classrooms that are striving for NGSS-aligned instruction. They include tasks that are ideal for checking in on student learning at various time points during instruction; some are designed for a mid-point check-in, whereas others are better suited for early formative assessment, and still others encompass more aspects of a performance expectation and thus are a better fit for near the end of instruction. Since we are in the midst of studying the full range of possible uses for our tasks in the classroom, teachers who use our tasks will need to consider the best “fit” for their students and classroom situations. |