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Developing and Using Diagnostic and Summative Assessments to Determine Students’ Conceptual Understanding in a Junior High School Earth Science Classroom
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This chapter outlines the process of developing worthwhile diagnostic and summative assessment tasks, as well as developing analytic and holistic scoring rubrics. The chapter provides examples of assessment tasks, scoring rubrics, and student responses as well as data that show the appropriateness of open-ended response items over selected response type tests.
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Conceptual Understanding Student Response Diagnostic Assessment Assessment Task Summative Assessment
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