Integrating Science With Mathematics & Literacy

Defining new visions for science, mathematics, and language arts education, the authors provide a clearly articulated set of performance assessments, allowing teachers to assess students' knowledge and abilities through investigation, problem solving, inventiveness, and inquiry. Featuring activities that promote higher-order thinking skills and help develop more complex cognitive functions, this resource offers more than 20 ready-to-use assessments linked to national standards with tools that include:o Learning logso Portfolioso Peer interview strategies o Teacher-student sample interviewso Problems to solve both individually and as a group.