Formative Assessment Strategies by Monitoring Science Students' Problem-Solving Skill Development

被引:1
作者
Pals, Frits F. B. [1 ]
Tolboom, Jos L. J. [2 ]
Suhre, Cor J. M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
[2] Netherlands Inst Curriculum Dev, SLO, Stn pl 1, NL-3818 LE Amersfoort, Netherlands
关键词
Secondary science education; Formative assessment; Problem solving; Cognition; Diagnostic assessment; Mastery-oriented instruction; MATHEMATICS; EXPERTISE; TEACHERS;
D O I
10.1007/s42330-023-00296-9
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
To be able to support students' competence development in solving physics problems over the course of a lesson series effectively, teachers need a proper appreciation of students' deficiencies. As teachers commonly assess students' competence by means of written tests, teachers are challenged to interpret students' work on these tests and to intervene when some students fail to understand the proper application of solution methods in different contexts. This paper evaluates a formative assessment practice where teachers have been instructed to pinpoint students' level of understanding of kinematics problems by means of a cognitive diagnostic instrument and to provide personalized hints that match students' current level of understanding. The study is novel in this sense that the assessment of written tests results of students' problem solving is not expressed in grades and pass rates, but in terms of cognitive level of understanding. The results show that teachers can determine and monitor shifts of performance of students' cognitive level of understanding by using this instrument. Second, the results indicate that among students with low initial results, the group that received sufficient feedback via sticky notes made significantly more progress in solving problems than the group that did not receive feed forward on sticky notes. Third, the timing of feedback in the form of sticky notes did not affect on students' progress in achieving mastery at the end of the instruction period. Our conclusion of this study is: Cognition develops through levels and tiers and support is essential to move to the Zone of Proximal Development. Subsequently, we evaluate group and subgroup implications for didactic interventions and propose suggestions for further investigations. Pour pouvoir soutenir efficacement le developpement des competences des eleves en resolution de problemes de physique sur un ensemble de lecons, les enseignants ont besoin d'une appreciation juste des lacunes des eleves. Comme les enseignants evaluent generalement les competences des eleves au moyen de tests ecrits, il devient difficile pour eux d'evaluer le travail des eleves lors de ces tests et d'intervenir quand certains de ces eleves ne parviennent pas a comprendre comment bien appliquer des methodes de resolution dans differents contextes. Dans cet article, nous examinons une pratique d'evaluation formative dans le cadre de laquelle les enseignants ont recu comme directive de determiner le niveau de comprehension des eleves a l'egard des problemes de cinematique a l'aide d'un instrument de diagnostic cognitif et de fournir des indications personnalisees qui correspondent au niveau de comprehension actuelle des eleves. Les resultats indiquent qu'en utilisant cet instrument, les enseignants sont en mesure de constater et de suivre les ecarts de performance en ce qui a trait au niveau de comprehension cognitive des eleves. Deuxiemement, on constate que, parmi les eleves qui ont obtenu de faibles resultats initiaux, le groupe qui a recu une retroaction appropriee par le biais de papillons adhesifs a beaucoup plus progresse dans la resolution de problemes que le groupe qui n'a pas beneficie de retroaction par papillon adhesif. Troisiemement, le moment choisi pour la retroaction sous forme de papillon adhesif n'a pas eu d'incidence sur la progression vers l'atteinte de la maitrise des eleves a la fin de la periode d'enseignement. De plus, on aborde ensuite les implications didactiques en ce qui a trait aux ecarts de performance des niveaux de comprehension cognitive des eleves, les tactiques a adopter pour fournir des conseils d'orientation et les limites entourant cette etude.
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