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Assessing primary science learning: beyond paper and pencil assessment

SO Wing Mui Winnie

Department of Science
The Hong Kong Institute of Education

E-mail: wiso@ied.edu.hk

Received 26 July, 2004
Revised 31 August, 2004

Contents

• Introduction
• The place of assessment in the curriculum
• Association between assessment and pedagogy
• Formative and summative assessment
  • Summative assessment
  • Formative assessment
• Different strategies for the assessment of science learning
  • a) Performance-based assessment in science projects and investigations
  • b) Science journal writing
  • c) Concept maps
  • d) Portfolio
  • e) Questions and Answers
• The important qualities of meaningful assessment
  • Interactive assessment
  • Coherent assessment system
  • Self-assessment and peer assessment
  • Feedback
• Conclusion
• References

 

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