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Keeley, Page – Science and Children, 2011
The "Needs of Seeds" formative assessment probe can be used to find out whether students recognize that seeds have needs both similar to and different from plants and other living organisms (Keeley, Eberle, and Tugel 2007). The probe reveals whether students overgeneralize the needs of seeds by assuming they have the same needs as the adult plants…
Descriptors: Evidence, Formative Evaluation, Scientific Principles, Plants (Botany)