Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes
2008 Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. --Association of Educational PublishersFormative Assessment at its best. I like how these books are tutorials with different "teacher talk" for the audience, elementary, middle, and high school. I like this so much I had every teacher in my PD class buy them. I will be buying the third one. --Reviewed by: Nora McDevitt (Youngstown, OH) on September 1, 2008Use in a hands-on workshop.  I used the series Uncovering Student Ideas in Science in two of my workshops on lecture-free teaching. These sessions were for high school and middle school science teachers. In one instance, the teachers (with whom I had worked previously) picked one of the formative assessments, tried it in their classrooms before the scheduled workshop date, and reported to the rest of the group about how it worked. In the second instance, I brought the books to the workshop and gave the teachers about 30 minutes to find an assessment appropriate for one of their classes, make copies for the other participants, and try the assessment on the workshop participants. In both cases each presentation was followed by critique and suggestions from other workshop participants. --Reviewed by: Bonnie Wood (Presque Isle, ME) on July 24, 2008