Recent News

• AERA 2012: Conversations about Common Formative Assessment: Analysis of a Teacher Learning Community
• NARST 2012: Item Context: How Organisms Used to Frame Natural Selection Items Influence Student Response Choices
• New chapters published in:
  • The Journey from Child to Scientist: Integrating Cognitive Development and the Education Sciences
  • Learning Progressions in Science: Current Challenges and Future Directions
• Call for Submissions: Essays on the Pre-Tenure Experience, Abstracts due April 15, 2012
• AERA 2011: "Flying Blind": An Exploration of Beginning Science Teachers' Enactment of Formative Assessment Practices
• NARST 2011: A Conceptual Analysis of the Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection: Improving diagnostic utility through within item analysis
• July 2010: New research project funded by National Science Foundation: CAREER: Educative Learning Progressions as Tools for Teacher Development
• Educational Assessment Special Issue: Evidence-Based Reasoning in School Science
• Modern Biology Goes to School: Symposium at ETH Zurich
• AERA 2010: Linking an Educative Learning Progression for Natural Selection to Teacher Practice: Results of an Exploratory Study