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Article: Scavenger hunt: middle school earth science "test."(using a scavenger hunt for an end-of-term student assessment in earth sciences education)
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- Science Activities
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- January 1, 1997
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Assessment is more than giving a test for the purpose of assigning a grade (Rakow 1992). A primary, yet often overlooked, task of assessment is to provide students with clues about which information and skills are important for them to have learned upon completion of a course of study (National Research Council 1996). To facilitate students' self-assessment of progress, a teacher may provide them with a list of guiding questions covering the course content or a checklist of behaviors to be mastered. Neither of those tools, however, piques students' interest in course content or skills nearly as much as offering them a scavenger hunt, the completion of which becomes an ...