Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (CLEAR)

This project focuses on the challenge of using assessment of relevant STEM content to improve K-12 teaching and learning. CLEAR takes advantage of new technologies and research findings to investigate ways that science assessments can both capture and contribute to cumulative, integrated learning of standards-based concepts in middle school courses. The project will research new forms of assessment that document students' accumulation of knowledge and also serve as learning events.

Project Evaluator
Paul Holland
Full Description

The CLEAR project takes advantage of new technologies and research findings to investigate ways that science assessments can both capture and contribute to cumulative, integrated learning of standards-based concepts in middle school courses.

Our research investigates how instructional activities can help middle school students develop a cumulative, integrated understanding of energy. Energy is a unifying scientific concept that has been shown to be difficult to learn due to its complexity and abstract nature.

PROJECT KEYWORDS
Target Audience
Middle School
Students
Teachers
Project Focus
Science
Assessment
Curricula/Activities
Project Type
Experimental
Student Outcomes
Products
Curriculum
Database
Instrument
Software

Project Materials

Title Type Post date
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:47pm
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:47pm
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:47pm
Can Dynamic Visualizations Improve Middle School Students’ Understanding of Energy in Photosynthesis? Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:37pm
Can Dynamic Visualizations Improve Middle School Students’ Understanding of Energy in Photosynthesis? Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:37pm
Can Dynamic Visualizations Improve Middle School Students’ Understanding of Energy in Photosynthesis? Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:37pm
Can Dynamic Visualizations Improve Middle School Students’ Understanding of Energy in Photosynthesis? Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:37pm
Orchestrating Inquiry Instruction Using the Knowledge Integration Framework Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:32pm
Orchestrating Inquiry Instruction Using the Knowledge Integration Framework Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:32pm
Orchestrating Inquiry Instruction Using the Knowledge Integration Framework Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:32pm
Orchestrating Inquiry Instruction Using the Knowledge Integration Framework Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:32pm
The Role of Self-Monitoring in Learning Chemistry with Dynamic Visualization Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:24pm
The Role of Self-Monitoring in Learning Chemistry with Dynamic Visualization Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:24pm
The Role of Self-Monitoring in Learning Chemistry with Dynamic Visualization Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:24pm
The Role of Self-Monitoring in Learning Chemistry with Dynamic Visualization Resource 02/14/2012 - 04:24pm
Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (CLEAR) Poster 01/07/2011 - 09:01am
Visualizing to Integrate Science Understanding for All Learners (VISUAL), Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (Clear) Poster 01/03/2011 - 03:35pm
Visualizing to Integrate Science Understanding for All Learners (VISUAL), Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (Clear) Poster 01/03/2011 - 03:35pm