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Rubrics for Assessing Student Achievement in Science Grades K-12

By: Hays B. Lantz, Jr.

Foreword by Jay McTighe

At last, science educators will be able to use custom-made rubrics to assess and evaluate student performance in the standards-based science classroom!

This concise handbook offers the most complete collection of evaluation and assessment tools in science education available today. Over 100 ready-to-use performance lists, holistic rubrics, and analytic rubrics offer clarity, detail, utility, and practicality.

Key features distinguishing this book include:

Scoring tools for a wide range of products and performances found in effective science classrooms and programs
Assessment tools that differentiate by learning levels, providing a scaffolding of increasingly complex expectations across the grades
Years of extensive field-testing of the evaluative criteria

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9780761931010
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2004
Page Count: 208
Publication date: February 13, 2004

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"I recommend Rubrics for Assessing Student Achievement in Science Grades K-12 to any school district that is moving toward a standards-based curriculum. It will serve as a valuable tool for assessing student learning."
Grace Cisek, Director of Mathematics and Science Curriculum
Chester County Intermediate Unit, PA

At last, science educators will now be able to use custom-made rubrics to assess and evaluate student performance in the standards-based science classroom!

Combining clarity, detail, utility, and practicality, veteran educator and author, Hays B. Lantz, Jr., offers the most complete collection of evaluation and assessment tools in science education available today. This concise handbook was designed to improve the quality and uniformity of evaluation as well as assessment of student progress. Written in language appropriate for both students and teachers in grades K-12, there are over 100 ready-to-use performance lists, holistic rubrics, and analytic rubrics that contain clear descriptions of the particular traits and qualities desired in student products and performances.

Key features distinguishing this book include:

Scoring tools for a wide range of products and performances found in effective science classrooms and programs
Assessment tools that differentiate by learning levels, providing a scaffolding of increasingly complex expectations across the grades
Years of extensive field-testing of the evaluative criteria

Rubrics for Assessing Student Achievement in Science Grades K-12 is a valuable resource that will help to measure what students know and are able to do in the science classroom. It will yield more consistent and defensible judgments, more precise feedback, and sharper student learning and performance.

Key features

Per Foreword writer Jay McTighe: "In my view, this is the most practical and content rich material of its type anywhere in North America, and definitely a 'best seller' to science educators."
Assessment tools are tied to science standards per AAAS, NRC, and NSTA
Field tested and ready-to-use without needing major modifications

Author(s)

Hays B. Lantz, Jr.

Hays Blaine Lantz, Jr. is currently Director of Science for grades PreK-12 for the Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland. Prior to this assignment, he served as Supervisor of Science K-12 for the Prince George’s County Public Schools; as Supervisor of the Howard B. Owens Science Center in Prince George’s County; as a Federal Programs Director, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Title IV-C Project Director, and as a high school administrator and classroom science teacher. Dr. Lantz has either taught or supervised all grades K-16, and has been extensively involved in professional and program development in science education for more than three decades. He has successfully directed several National Science Foundation projects, most recently the Partnerships for Math and Science Achievement (PMSA). In addition, Dr. Lantz also stays active as a science education consultant for several publishers and numerous school districts. His current research interests in science education include performance-based teaching and assessment, advance organizers, and the effects of prior knowledge on learning.

Dr. Lantz received his formal education at James Madison University and at the University of Virginia. He earned his doctorate in Science Education from the University of Virginia in 1981, with supporting fields in Research & Evaluation and Supervision & Administration. When not actively engaged in his work, Dr. Lantz enjoys skiing, golfing, fly fishing, hiking, and other outdoor activities.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Assessment in Science Education

A Call for Change

Using National and State Standards to Implement Change

Assessment Techniques

Performance Tasks

Assessing Student Achievement on Performance Tasks

Implementing Performance Tasks in the Science Classroom

2. Designing and Using Performance List Rubrics to Assess Student Work

Criteria for Assessment

Steps for Designing Assessment/Evaluation Tools

3. Designing and Using Scoring Rubrics to Assess Student Work

Scoring Rubrics

Characteristics of Holistic Rubrics

Characteristics of Analytic Rubrics

4. Assessment Tools for Science Grades K-1

5. Assessment Tools for Science Grades 2-3

6. Assessment Tools for Science Grades 4-6

7. Assessment Tools for Science Grades 7-12

Web Sites for Rubrics in Science

References

Index

Reviews

I recommend Rubrics for Assessing Student Achievement in Science Grades K-12 to any school district that is moving toward a standards-based curriculum. It will serve as a valuable tool for assessing student learning.

Grace Cisek, Director of Mathematics and Science Curriculum
Chester County Intermediate Unit, PA

Provides practical and proven tools for assessing and improving learning and performing in science. You and your students will unquestionably benefit from their use.

From the Foreword by Jay McTighe
Educational consultant and coauthor of Assessing Learning in the Classroom

"Provides the long-awaited solution for teachers looking for ways to successfully assess performance tasks, but who lack the time or expertise to do it all themselves. All of the rubrics presented in this book are open in their design so teachers can adapt them for many different situations."

NSTA Recommends, March 2005

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