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Martínez, José Felipe; Kloser, Matt; Srinivasan, Jayashri; Stecher, Brian; Edelman, Amanda – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
Adoption of new instructional standards in science demands high-quality information about classroom practice. Teacher portfolios can be used to assess instructional practice and support teacher self-reflection anchored in authentic evidence from classrooms. This study investigated a new type of electronic portfolio tool that allows efficient…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Academic Standards, Instructional Innovation, Electronic Publishing
Cropley, David; Cropley, Arthur – Educational Technology, 2016
Computer-assisted assessment (CAA) is problematic when it comes to fostering creativity, because in educational thinking the essence of creativity is not finding the correct answer but generating novelty. The idea of "functional" creativity provides rubrics that can serve as the basis for forms of CAA leading to either formative or…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Formative Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing
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Bucci, Karen – Science and Children, 2018
In this article, Karen Bucci describes how she incorporated her iPad with the wireless SmartScope iGO microscope and Wi-Viewer app to teach her fourth-grade class the science module "Ecosystems" by National Science Resources Center's Science and Technology for Children (STC) (1996, 2005). A main idea in the unit is the importance of…
Descriptors: Water, Recreational Facilities, Ecology, Educational Technology