assessment

There are many techniques for assessing the skills and understandings of students; testing is perhaps the most formal and common. Other methods include observation, group discussion, individual questions, interviews, portfolios, homework, projects, laboratory reports, research papers, oral presentations, and self-evaluation.

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Blending a Periodicity Unit
// Wednesday, April 20, 2016 • Dan Meyers
Previously I wrote about taking part in a district-wide high school blended learning pilot. You can read about it here. I received my Chromebook cart near the end of February/beginning of March. A little late but just in time for the periodicity unit I was planning as a blended unit. The following is a breakdown of how I designed the unit.
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Using a Comment Bank to Provide Student Feedback on a Lab
// Monday, March 21, 2016 • LowellThomson
I was sitting at my laptop marking up some labs and realized I had some students that kept making the same mistake as previous labs. So…this got me thinking. How can I get students to more carefully utilize my feedback? (This isn't a post to bash my students that aren't using my feedback.
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New Year. New Labs. New Instructor.
// Monday, January 25, 2016 • Sarah Kong
As a new semester begins, I am excited again. Starting fresh, introducing new people to the amazing world of chemistry, and putting my newly edited labs to the test! In addition, another instructor is trying my labs.
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Standards-Based Grading in the Chemistry Classroom
// Friday, January 22, 2016 • Lauren Stewart
An educational reform that has been gaining a large amount of popularity in the last decade is standards-based grading (SBG). The heart of the SBG movement is truly rooted in one very important question, “what do you want your grades mean?”
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Chemistry Thus Far . . .
// Wednesday, December 30, 2015 • Michelle Okroy
Using a whiteboard or poster paper each group of students creates their interpretation of the model thus far based on a content unit they are given.
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Especially JCE—December 2015
// Thursday, December 17, 2015 • Erica K. Jacobsen
Think it’s possible to get nostalgic over paperwork? I just did, spurred by editor-in-chief Norb Pienta’s editorial Thinking about Champions in the December 2015 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education.
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Vocabulary Instruction
// Monday, December 7, 2015 • Dan Meyers
Late last school year at a staff meeting, teachers were informed that we were going to be coached and encouraged to introduce more vocabulary instruc
Are We Asking the Right Questions
Are We Asking the Right Questions?
// Saturday, November 28, 2015 • Michelle Okroy
           “So what corners of the periodic table do I have to memorize in order to get an A on the trends quiz?” This was a question that was asked by one of my students at the beginning of our periodicity unit.