Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Vol. 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes | 
| Authors: Page Keeley, Francis Eberle, Lynn Farrin
Creator: Linda Olliver
Publisher: NSTA Press (National Science Teachers Association)
Category: Book
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Pages: 193
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0873552555
Dewey Decimal Number: 507.1
EAN: 9780873552554
ASIN: 0873552555
Publication Date: October 31, 2005
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This book is loaded with classroom-friendly tools to pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can adjust your teaching accordingly. At the book's heart are 25 "probes." These brief, easily administered activities will reveal your students' thinking on 44 core science topics, grouped by light, sound, matter, gravity, heat and temperature, life science, and Earth and space science.
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science September 9, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book! I am in the process of writing a grant proposal to get a copy of this book as well as the second edition for each of the science teachers at our school. I haven't seen the book, but I have used the assessment probes as part of a Montana State University mentoring program. The assessment probes are MAGIC. I used them in classes ranging from Physical Science (which is taken primarily by students who are not college-bound)to Honors Physics, and the students got so much out of the exercise. One young woman, who was a marginal student before the probe "What is Matter?", "won" a discussion with the smartest boy in the class about whether air is matter, and her performance took off after that! I highly recommend this book.
Great Book for Science Teachers January 17, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is really helpful if you want to use common assessments to look at student work and uncover student's initial ideas about science concepts.
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