The “Ticket to Ride” Formative Assessment Ritual: Collaboration and Festivity in High School Chemistry

2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 1003-1007
Author(s):  
Mark F. Klawiter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
High School Chemistry

Characterizing high school chemistry teachers' use of assessment data via latent class analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Harshman ◽  
Ellen Yezierski
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
High School Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Teachers

In this study, which builds on a previous qualitative study and literature review, high school chemistry teachers' characteristics regarding the design of chemistry formative assessments and interpretation of results for instructional improvement are identified. The Adaptive Chemistry Assessment Survey for Teachers (ACAST) was designed to elicit these characteristics in both generic formative assessment prompts and chemistry-specific prompts. Two adaptive scenarios, one in gases and one in stoichiometry, required teachers to design and interpret responses to formative assessments as they would in their own classrooms. A national sample of 340 high school chemistry teachers completed the ACAST.Vialatent class analysis of the responses, it was discovered that a relatively small number of teachers demonstrated limitations in aligning items with chemistry learning goals. However, the majority of teachers responded in ways consistent with a limited consideration of how item design affects interpretation. Details of these characteristics are discussed. It was also found that these characteristics were largely independent of demographics such as teaching experience, chemistry degree, and teacher education. Lastly, evidence was provided regarding the content- and topic-specificity of the characteristics by comparing responses from generic formative assessment prompts to chemistry-specific prompts.

High School Chemistry Self-Efficacy Scale

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeşim Çapa Aydın ◽  
Esen Uzuntiryaki
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
High School Chemistry

Visualizing chemistry teachers’ enacted assessment design practices to better understand barriers to “best practices”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam G. L. Schafer ◽  
Victoria M. Borland ◽  
Ellen J. Yezierski
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
High School Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Assessment Design ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Representational Level

Even when chemistry teachers’ beliefs about assessment design align with literature-cited best practices, barriers can prevent teachers from enacting those beliefs when developing day-to-day assessments. In this paper, the relationship between high school chemistry teachers’ self-generated “best practices” for developing formative assessments and the assessments they implement in their courses are examined. Results from a detailed evaluation of several high school chemistry formative assessments, learning goals, and learning activities reveal that assessment items are often developed to require well-articulated tasks but lack either alignment regarding representational level or employ only one representational level for nearly all assessment items. Implications for the development of a chemistry-specific method for evaluating alignment are presented as well as implications for high school chemistry assessment design.

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