Resource Letter on Energy and Society

Just came across this article, thought it might be a useful reference for the Energy Project:

http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v75/i4/p294_s1

Assessment AS learning

I found this great quote in a Beatty paper I'm reading on clicker pedagogy:

Questions are used to set up fertile learning situations and to catalyze learning, not just to assess previous instruction or gather data to inform future instruction. Wiliam (2007) has called this ‘‘assessment AS learning,’’ to distinguish it from summative assessment (‘‘assessment OF learning’’) and formative assessment (‘‘assessment FOR learning’’).

Should we be thinking more about this type of assessment in the Energy Project?

References:

Beatty I D and Gerace W J (2009) Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment: A Research-Based Pedagogy for Teaching Science with Classroom Response Technology, J Sci Educ Technol 18:146–162

Wiliam D (2007) Keeping learning on track: classroom assessment and the regulation of learning. In: Lester FK (ed) Second handbook of mathematics teaching and learning. Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, pp 1051–1098