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Formative Assessment in High School Chemistry Teaching: Investigating the Alignment of Teachers' Goals with Their Items

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Sandlin, Benjamin; Harshman, Jordan; Yezierski, Ellen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015

A 2011 report by the Department of Education states that understanding how teachers use results from formative assessments to guide their practice is necessary to improve instruction. Chemistry teachers have goals for items in their formative assessments, but the degree of alignment between what is assessed by these items and the teachers' goals…

Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Chemistry, Test Items, Behavioral Objectives