All educators engage in formative assessment; however, to ensure educators are fostering equity in how diverse learners experience learning, the assessment toolkit needs to be expanded. Science education, like all other aspects of society today, has persistent issues of inequity rooted in issues of anti-Blackness, colonialism, and racism; however,…

Student attitudes can have a positive or negative effect on learning. According to Duschl, Schweingruber, and Shouse, "[students'] goals for science learning, their beliefs about their ability to do science, and the value they assign to science learning are likely to influence their cognitive engagement in science tasks" (2007, p. 195). Therefore,…

Introduces six evaluation instruments which measure student opinion of classroom climate. Provides examples of their uses, along with comments of teachers who have used the instruments. (CP)

Describes an evaluation system used in a junior high school science course in which students evaluated their own achievement on a daily basis. (JR)