Elementary Science Assessment Planning Conference

这个国家对基础科学教育领域的改革越来越感兴趣。虽然大多数科学教育工作者认识到动手科学教育的必要性，但那些目前从事改革工作的人认识到，在这一领域，以前的课程工作的一个重大失败是，开发人员无法或不愿意设计新的学生评估形式，以满足基于材料的科学项目的需要。这项建议是召开一次邀请会议，讨论是否需要独立于课程的测试和评估工具，供课堂教师结合教学使用。关于基础科学评估的新想法可以来自其他课程领域（阅读和写作），最近开发的科学成就指标，如国家教育进步评估，新的nsf支持的课程开发，以及对儿童科学概念的研究。这次会议将以一系列委托撰写的论文为基础，讨论这些发展如何成为新工具和新方法的基础。结果将是一个专著广泛传播和建议未来发展工作的基础科学评估。

There is a growing interest in the country for reform in the area of elementary science education. While most science educators recognize the need for hands-on science education, those currently engaged in reform efforts recognize that one of the crucial failings of the previous curriculum work in this area was the inability or unwillingness of developers to devise new forms of student assessment to meet the needs of material based science programs. This proposal is for an invitational conference to address the need for curriculum independent tests and assessment tools for classroom teachers to use in conjunction with instruction. New ideas about elementary science assessment can come from other curriculum areas (reading and writing), recently developed indicators of science achievement such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress assessment, new NSF-supported curriculum developments, and research on children's conceptions of science. The conference, based on a series of commissioned papers, will address how these developments can form the basis for new instruments and methods. The result will be a monograph for wide dissemination and suggestions for future developmental work in elementary science assessment.