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Draft New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards for preview have been posted. Please visit http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/sci/ngss.html for more information about the draft standards and for links to the draft standards.

The Department encourages you to download the draft standards, review them and the associated resources included in the introduction, and discuss them at length with your colleagues. The Department anticipates posting a survey to collect feedback regarding the standards on December 2, 2015 and leaving the survey open for approximately two months.

Final Survey

Please complete the following survey in order to receive your certificate of completion

This must be completed by the end of school day Monday in order to get completion certificates out. 

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FINAL TASK:

Watch the webinar from 36:50 to the end and Complete Page 8 and 9 in your workbook

Sharing Authentic Summative Tasks

After completing Page 8, Please CLICK HERE to open the Google Doc in which each person will share one summary of a summative task that they have revised in order to increase its learner-centeredness based on the strategies discussed.  

Task 9:

Watch the webinar from 34:20 to 36:50  and use workbook pages 6-7

Comment on the following:

How do these assessment examples compare to the Science assessments you currently develop or administer?

Comment on at least one other post and offer ideas on how to refine or expand assessments that are being used.

Task 6:

Watch the video from 18:30 to 20:15

What am I trying to collect evidence of?

Write a post reflecting on the following:

- Thinking about the first 4 components of a "good" assessment (Alignment, Impact, Reliability and Quantity) what are your thoughts on these and how you use them to create assessments in Science? What areas may you need to work on?
-Comment on a colleagues post

Task 8:

Watch the Video from 24:45 until 34:20

Hallmarks of a Learner-Centered Assessment

Comment on the Following 

1. -How can you break down walls between assessment and learning?

2. -What is one way (make a small move) you can make assessment a process and not an event in your Science curriculum this year?

3. - Give one example of an embedded assessment in Science

4. - What is one way to give students more responsibility with assessment in your Science instruction?

Task 7:

Watch the video from 20:15 to 24:45 and reference Page 5 in your workbook

Authenticity

Complete page 5 in your workbook. 

Comment on the following:

- What are your thoughts on Authentic Tasks? Do you use them in your Science instruction and assessment?

- Please share one example and/or experiences that rated high in authenticity from your chart on page 5

- Also, please comment on each others posts and give feedback on tasks that are shared in regards to authenticity.