Developing Diagnostic Assessments of STEM Learning: Key Decisions and Alternative Approaches
This session will engage participants in discussion of design issues and expertise required to develop diagnostic assessments of science and mathematics learning.
The topic of this session will be the exploration of alternative approaches to designing diagnostic assessments in STEM learning. The discussion will concentrate on the full range of methodological decisions involved in drawing on current knowledge of student thinking on key ideas and transforming it into assessment strategies based on underlying models of how knowledge develops over time.