HR: 0830h
AN: ED21C-1220    [PDF]
TI: The Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG): A Community Repository of Proven Alternative Assessment Instruments for STEM Education
AU: Zeilik, M
EM: mzeilik@earthlink.net
AF: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
AU: * Garvin-Doxas, K
EM: garvindo@colorado.edu
AF: CIPS, UCB 390, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
AU: * Garvin-Doxas, K
EM: garvindo@colorado.edu
AF: JILA, UCB 440, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
AB: FLAG, the Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (http://www.flaguide.org/) is a NSF funded website that offers broadly-applicable, self-contained modular classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and discipline-specific tools for STEM instructors creating new approaches to evaluate student learning, attitudes and performance. In particular, the FLAG contains proven techniques for alterative assessments---those needed for reformed, innovative STEM courses. Each tool has been developed, tested and refined in real classrooms at colleges and universities. The FLAG also contains an assessment primer, a section to help you select the most appropriate assessment technique(s) for your course goals, and other resources. In addition to references on instrument development and field-tested instruments on attitudes towards science, the FLAG also includes discipline-specific tools in Physics, Astronomy, Biology, and Mathematics. Building of the Geoscience collection is currently under way with the development of an instrument for detecting misconceptions of incoming freshmen on Space Science, which is being developed with the help of the Committee on Space Science and Astronomy of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Additional field-tested resources from the Geosciences are solicited from the community. Contributions should be sent to Michael Zeilik, zeilik@la.unm.edu. This work has been supported in part by NSF grant DUE 99-81155.
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting