Assessing Model-Based Reasoning using Evidence- Centered Design : A Suite of Research-Based Design Patterns

✍ Scribed by Haertel, Geneva; Mislevy, Robert J.; Riconscente, Michelle; Wise Rutstein, Daisy; Ziker, Cindy

• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards. Understanding, exploring, and interacting with the world through models characterizes science in all its branches and at all levels of education. Model-based reasoning is central to science education and thus science assessment. Current interest in developing and using models has increased with the release of the Next Generation Science Standards, which identified this as one of the eight practices of science and engineering. However, the interactive, complex, and often technology-based tasks that are needed to assess model-based reasoning in its fullest forms are difficult to develop.

Building on research in assessment, science education, and learning science, this Brief describes a suite of design patterns that can help assessment designers, researchers, and teachers create tasks for assessing aspects of model-based reasoning: Model Formation, Model Use, Model Elaboration, Model Articulation, Model Evaluation, Model Revision, and Model-Based Inquiry. Each design pattern lays out considerations concerning targeted knowledge and ways of capturing and evaluating students’ work. These design patterns are available at http://design-drk.padi.sri.com/padi/do/NodeAction?state=listNodes&NODE_TYPE=PARADIGM_TYPE. The ideas are illustrated with examples from existing assessments and the research literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 1-8
Model-Based Reasoning (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 9-18
Evidence-Centered Assessment Design (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 19-24
Design Patterns for Model-Based Reasoning (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 25-29
Model Formation (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 31-48
Model Use (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 49-57
Model Elaboration (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 59-64
Model Articulation (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 65-70
Model Evaluation (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 71-79
Model Revision (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 81-87
Model-Based Inquiry (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 89-97
Conclusion (Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Michelle Riconscente, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Cindy Ziker)....Pages 99-103
Back Matter ....Pages 105-130

✦ Subjects

Statistics;Educational technology;Teaching;Assessment;Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law;Assessment, Testing and Evaluation;Statistical Theory and Methods;Educational Technology;Teaching and Teacher Education;Learning et Instruction