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Sadler, Philip M.; Night, Christopher – Physics Teacher, 2010
What kinds of astronomical lab activities can high school and college astronomy students carry out easily in daytime? The most impressive is the determination of latitude and longitude from observations of the Sun. The "shooting of a noon sight" and its "reduction to a position" grew to become a daily practice at the start of the 19th century…
Descriptors: Marine Education, Astronomy, High School Students, College Students
Shavelson, Richard J.; And Others – 1993
One potential approach to the authentic assessment of what students know and can do in science is concept mapping. A concept map is a graph consisting of nodes representing concepts and labeled lines denoting the relation between a pair of nodes (concepts). The external concept map constructed by the student is interpreted as representing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Construct Validity, Educational Assessment