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Integrating Science With Mathematics & Literacy

New Visions for Learning and Assessment
Second Edition
By: Elizabeth Hammerman, Diann Musial

Foreword by Robert E. Yager

Challenge and expand students' abilities with multidimensional performance tasks!

This revised edition offers a clearly articulated set of performance tasks that illustrate new methods for integrating science, mathematics, and language arts with instruction and assessment. Each task correlates with current research, focuses on learning indicators linked to state and national standards, and models inquiry-based science in ways proven to improve student achievement. Teachers can follow detailed guidelines to develop customized assessments or use the more than 20 assessments included to evaluate learners':

  • Understanding of content and processes
  • Development of complex thinking skills 
  • Aptitude for science
  • Ability to make real-world connections

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: 3-8
  • ISBN: 9781412955645
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 200
  • Publication date: October 10, 2007
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"Hammerman and Musial offer great strategies for developing rubrics to determine how much real learning has occurred. I recommend this easily understood and helpful book to all teachers who want to make their assessment of learning more authentic."
—From the Foreword by Robert E. Yager

"Designing and using performance assessment tools can be very challenging for beginning teachers. The authors offer a fantastic starting point for all science educators to examine their current method of assessment and apply new and different types of authentic assessment strategies across the curriculum."
—Sheila Smith, Science Specialist/National Science Foundation Project Director
Jackson Public Schools, MS

Challenge and expand students' abilities with multidimensional performance tasks!

In this invaluable resource, science educators Elizabeth Hammerman and Diann Musial define a new vision for integrating science, mathematics, and language arts with instruction and assessment and encourage teachers to develop reliable processes for assessing both their teaching practice and student learning.

This revised edition offers more than 20 performance assessments that promote student engagement. Each clearly articulated task correlates with current research and focuses on learning indicators linked to state and national standards. The assessments also model inquiry-based science in ways proven to increase student achievement, allowing learners to demonstrate their understanding of embedded concepts through exploration, inquiry, and application.

Teachers can follow detailed guidelines to develop customized assessments or use the assessments already included to evaluate learners':

  • Understanding of content and processes
  • Development of complex thinking skills
  • Aptitude for science
  • Ability to make real-world connections

Featuring learning logs, portfolios, peer interview strategies, and sample teacher-student interviews, Integrating Science With Mathematics and Literacy, Second Edition, helps educators obtain accurate performance data while giving students opportunities to examine the world in exciting ways.


Key features

  • Assessment tools include: learning logs, portfolios, peer interview strategies, teacher-student sample interviews, and problems to solve both individually and as a group
  • Activities promote higher-order thinking skills and help develop more complex cognitive functions
  • Outlines basic concepts of science, grades 3–9
  • Performance assessments are set within a real-life context
  • Not limited to science components, the book also considers assessment tasks for mathematics and language arts

Author(s)

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Elizabeth Hammerman

Elizabeth Hammerman is a dedicated science educator and consultant. Her professional background includes teaching science at the middle school and high school levels and over 20 years of experience teaching university science education courses and co-directing funded grant projects. She has done extensive professional development with teachers in the field, specializing in curriculum development and implementation, performance assessment, and effective teaching and learning. The need for high-quality professional development programs and materials in science education became apparent throughout the many projects and professional relationships with teachers who were eager to increase their knowledge base, skills, and confidence for teaching science more effectively.

Hammerman has co-authored a book on performance assessment in science and authored a database of science assessment tasks. She has published articles, presented programs at national conferences, consulted nationally, and developed curriculum and assessments for cutting-edge school districts and commercial products.

Since relocating to North Carolina in 1999, Hammerman has been a math/science consultant for a consortium of seven county school systems, has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education and science education, served as director of education and professional development for Virtual Learning Systems, and worked as a consultant for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She is actively involved in professional development and continues to work on a series of professional development books for science education for Corwin Press.

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Diann Musial

Table of Contents

Foreword by Robert E. Yager

Introduction

Part I. Theory

1. What Is Science?

2. New Visions for Mathematics and Language Literacy

3. Developing Rubrics for Teaching and Assessment Performance Tasks

4. Putting It All Together: Integrated Performance Tasks for Learning and Assessment

Part II. Application

5. Adventuring Back in Time

6. The Dog Washing Business

7. May the Force Be With You

8. Water, Water Everywhere

9. A Wholesome Partnership

10. A-W-L for One and One for A-W-L

11. The Mysterious Package

12. Up, Up, and Away

13. Role-ing Through Science and Technology

Appendix A. Answers to Criterion-Referenced Tests

References

Reviews

Quote by Melissa Miller, Science Teacher, Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR: "An excellent resource for science teachers. Includes user-friendly, ready-to-use assessments, complete with analytical rubrics that can be adapted to almost any classroom!"
"An excellent resource for science teachers. Includes user-friendly, ready-to-use assessments, complete with analytical rubrics that can be adapted to almost any classroom!"
Melissa Miller, Science Teacher
Lynch Middle School, Farmington, AR
Quote by Sheila Smith, Science Specialist/National Science Foundation Project Director, Jackson Public Schools, MS: "Designing and using performance assessment tools can be very challenging for beginning teachers. The authors offer a fantastic starting point for all science educators to examine their current method of assessment and apply new and different types of authentic assessment strategies across the curriculum."
"Designing and using performance assessment tools can be very challenging for beginning teachers. The authors offer a fantastic starting point for all science educators to examine their current method of assessment and apply new and different types of authentic assessment strategies across the curriculum."
Sheila Smith, Science Specialist/National Science Foundation Project Director
Jackson Public Schools, MS
Quote by NSTA Recommends, January 2008, National Science Teachers Association: "Teachers who are exploring new ways of integrating mathematics and writing into their science curriculum will be well served by this book. The activities are general enough to provide creative teachers with numerous ideas for incorporating the various tools into their own curricular activities."
"Teachers who are exploring new ways of integrating mathematics and writing into their science curriculum will be well served by this book. The activities are general enough to provide creative teachers with numerous ideas for incorporating the various tools into their own curricular activities."
NSTA Recommends, January 2008
National Science Teachers Association
Quote by Curriculum Connections, Spring 2008, School Library Journal: "The instructional templates and plans offered will enable readers to incorporate the key ideas into their current lessons."
"The instructional templates and plans offered will enable readers to incorporate the key ideas into their current lessons."
Curriculum Connections, Spring 2008
School Library Journal

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