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NGSS Assessment (and unit) development: Uncoupling DCI concepts is an essential first step in planning for assessment
The content (DCIs) in our science standards is dense. There are very often multiple ideas packed into a single sentence in a DCI – even in kindergarten. When working on assessment development with educators, the first thing we do is to make sense of the many discrete ideas packed into the DCIs in our performance
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NGSS: Data – Our World in Data
Hands down I get more feedback from educators about Our World in Data than any other web based resource I share during professional development. Building data literacy skills is paramount at every grade level as we all transition to this brave new world. The organization’s tagline is “Research and data to make progress against the
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NGSS Assessment: Science assessment grounded in equity
You are likely familiar with “assessment for” learning rather than “assessment of” learning. It’s an important shift that many of us have been working hard to realize. But what about assessment as a caring practice? This episode of a podcast about the NGSS (yes – there’s a podcast about the NGSS : ) called “Unpack
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