Beyond answer choice B : the development of an assessment of argumentation in ecology
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Next Generation Science Standards describe students' proficiency in science in three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas (content), scientific practices, and crosscutting concepts. However, the field currently lacks high quality assessments that measure students' progress toward mastering scientific practices. In this dissertation, I developed a set of tasks that assess students' competence with one of these practices in a particular content domain: argument from evidence in ecology. I administered the tasks to a sample of high school biology students and conducted cognitive "think aloud" interviews with a subset of students. Conclusions about what worked (and what did not work) in these tasks are offered, as well as implications for future work in assessment design. In addition, this work investigated the extent to which students relied on specific ecological content knowledge to construct and critique arguments. Findings indicate that content knowledge was necessary, but not sufficient, for high performance in argumentation. Ideas are offered about what, in addition to content knowledge, may improve students' argumentation in science.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | MacPherson, Anna |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Osborne, Jonathan |
| Thesis advisor | Osborne, Jonathan |
| Thesis advisor | Wilson, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Wineburg, Samuel S |
| Advisor | Wilson, Mark |
| Advisor | Wineburg, Samuel S |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Anna MacPherson. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Anna Christine MacPherson
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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