Classroom Assessment in Science Education Bibliography

Baron, Joyce Boykoff. “Performance Assessment: Blurring the Edges of Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction.” Science Assessment in the Service of Reform. Ed. G. Kuhn and S. M. Malcom. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1991). 247-266.

Bowen, Craig W., and Amy J. Phelps. “Demonstration-Based Cooperative Testing in General Chemistry: A Broader Assessment-of-Learning Technique.” Journal of Chemical Education 74:6 (1997): 715-719.

Burry-Stock, Judith A., and Cindy M. Casebeer. “A Study of the Alignment of National Standards, State Standards, and Science Assessment.” Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2003.

Cavallo, Ann M. L. “Do Females Learn Biological Topics by Rote More than Males?” American Biology Teacher 56:6 (1994): 348-352.

Doran, Rodney L., Frances Lawrenz, and Stanley Helgeson. “Research on Assessment in Science.” Handbook of Research on Science Teaching and Learning. Ed. Dorothy L. Gabel. New York: Macmillian, 1994. 388-442.

Johnson, David W. and Roger T. Johnson. “Group Assessment as an Aid to Science Instruction.”  Science Assessment in the Service of Reform. Ed. G. Kuhn and S. M. Malcom. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1991). 283-289.

Krueger, Alice, and John Sutton, eds. EDThoughts: What We Know About Science Teaching and Learning. Aurora, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (MCREL), 2001.

Liew, Chong-Wah and David F. Treagust. “The Effectiveness of Predict-Observe-Explain Tasks in Diagnosing Students’ Understanding of Science and in Identifying their Levels of Achievement.” American Educational Research Association, San Diego CA, April 1998.

Moffat, Ann Greenlaw, and Ryan Schmidt. “Their Turn to Teach: High School Students Teach Physics to Elementary Students.” Science Teacher 68:8 (2001): 47-51.

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). “Standardized and Textbook Tests Hinder Reform.” NSTA Reports. December 1992/January 1993.

Newmann, Fred M., Walter G. Secada, and Gary G. Wehlage. A Guide to Authentic Instruction and Assessment: Vision, Standards and Scoring. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin, 1995.

Novak, Joseph D., and D. Bob Gowin. Learning How to Learn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Rice, Diana C., Joseph M. Ryan, and Sara M. Samson. “Using Concept Maps to Assess Student Learning in the Science Classroom: Must Different Methods Compete?” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 35:10 (1998): 1103-1127.

Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli and Richard J. Shavelson. “Problems and Issues in the Use of Concept Maps in Science Assessment.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 33:6 (1996): 569-600.

Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli, Min Li, and Richard J. Shavelson. “Looking Into Students’ Science Notebooks: What Do Teachers Do With Them?” CSE Technical Report 562. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California, 2002.

Shavelson, Richard J., Guillermo Solano-Flores, and Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo. “Toward a Science Performance Assessment Technology.” Evaluation and Program Planning 21 (1998): 171-184.

Stern, Luli, and Andrew Ahlgren. “Analysis of Students’ Assessments in Middle School Curriculum Materials: Aiming Precisely at Benchmarks and Standards.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 39:9 (2002): 889-910.

Tamir, Pinchas. “Invitations to Inquiry’ and Teacher Training.” American Biology Teacher 38 (1976): 50-52.

Tamir, Pinchas, Rodney L. Doran, and Yeoh Oon Chye. “Practical Skills Testing in Science.” Studies in Educational Evaluation 18:3 (1992): 263-275.

Treagust, David F., Roberta Jacobowitz, James L. Gallagher, and Joyce Parker.  “Using Assessment as a Guide in Teaching for Understanding: A Case Study of a Middle School Science Class Learning about Sound.” Science Education 85:2 (2001): 137-157.

Wright, Ann W. “The ABCs of Assessment.” The Science Teacher 68:7 (2001): 60-64.

Yin, Yue, Jim Vanides, Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo, Carlos C. Ayala, and Richard Shavelson. “A Comparison of Two Construct-a-Concept Map Science Assessments: Created Linking Phrases and Selected Linking Phrases.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, In press.