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Overview

The Framework for Science Education and resulting Next Generation Science Standards effectively constitute a call for an extreme makeover for science education. Science education implemented in the spirit of NGSS brings together the cross-cutting concepts and science engineering practices identified in the Framework for Science Education and NGSS with disciplinary core ideas. Collecting evidence of student learning must also undergo an extreme makeover if it is to be a true reflection of what students know and can do. What does assessment that is aligned to 3-dimensional teaching look like at the classroom level? How will students demonstrate that they have mastered the science and engineering practices and cross-cutting concepts within the context of the disciplinary core ideas?

Target Audience

The target audience for this workshop is any instructor who works with pre-service or in-service K-12 teachers, and K-12 teachers. This includes not only instructors in teacher prep programs, but also 2YC and intro level course instructors who discover that many education majors take their courses to fulfill natural science requirements.

Goals

As a result of participation in the workshop, participants will be able to develop assessment tasks, and provide support for pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers as they work to develop classroom assessment tasks.

• infusing classroom assessment tasks with the spirit of NGSS
  
• integrating the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts into classroom assessment
  
• building impact through infusing assessment tasks with systems thinking, creating and using scientific models, emphasis on quantitative thinking, and designing solutions to meet global challenges.
  

Format

The approach we will take during this workshop will be to:

• examine the sample assessment tasks offered through NGSS for various grade bands
  
• examine the evidence statements offered through NGSS for various grade bands
  
• consider ESS HS assessment tasks developed and piloted by the workshop conveners
  
• collaborate to develop a model describing the structure of NGSS assessment tasks
  
• collaborate to develop / outline an assessment task