In the area of Science, content consists of the skills, processes, facts, and principles. Core Learning Goal 1 identifies the skills and processess of the content. Students must use the skills and processes to develop an understanding of the concept. When planning instruction, the teacher must combine the indicators from the Concept Goal with the appropriate indicators from the Skills and Processes, Goal 1. This same strategy is used in the development of the assessment items.
Items assess what a student knows and is able to do.
The following six pages demonstrate this principle. The first four contain examples of how the indicators from the Concept Goal and the first Core Learning Goal can be combined for the instructional setting. On the next two pages, the principle is modeled by biology prototype items.