Next-Generation Science Tests Slowly Take Shape

Education Week: Around the country, science instruction is changing—students are being asked to make models, analyze data, construct arguments, and design solutions in ways that far exceed schools' previous goals.

That means science testing, of course, needs to change as well.

Students "have got to show us how they know, not just what they know," said James Pellegrino, a co-director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert on assessment.

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