As my credential classes at NDNU have entered my second semester, I am taking classes focusing on assessment and literacy in content areas. We've already discussed a couple of interesting topics that I wanted to share:
*Literacy is discipline specific! Students access and develop different cognitive skills based on the subject matter they are learning. In science, students need to construct meaning out of numbers, symbols, graphs, and specific scientific vocabulary (that they've usually never heard of before!). Learning science is like learning a foreign language!
*Tips for writing selected response assessments:
1) Include equal amounts of each answer choice in your solution key
2) Make each answer choice equivalent in length
3) Having a "none of the above" option increases the difficulty of the question
4) Having an "all of the above" option decreases the difficulty of the question
5) More text should be included in the question than in the answer choices
6) Using double negatives confuses students
…hope you enjoyed these tidbits of info! :)
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