Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Learning Progressions in Science

Current Challenges and Future Directions

  • Book
  • © 2012

Overview

Editors:
  1. Alicia C. Alonzo
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Amelia Wenk Gotwals
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Framing Section

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Introduction

      • Amelia Wenk Gotwals, Alicia C. Alonzo
      Pages 3-12

    3. Reflections on Learning Progressions

      • Richard J. Shavelson, Amy Kurpius
      Pages 13-26

    4. The Importance, Cautions and Future of Learning Progression Research

      • Joseph S. Krajcik
      Pages 27-36

  3. Defining Learning Progressions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Addressing Challenges in Developing Learning Progressions For Environmental Science Literacy

      • Kristin L. Gunckel, Lindsey Mohan, Beth A. Covitt, Charles W. Anderson
      Pages 39-75

    3. Challenges in Defining and Validating an Astronomy Learning Progression

      • Julia D. Plummer
      Pages 77-100

    4. MoDeLS

      • Christina Schwarz, Brian J. Reiser, Andrés Acher, Lisa Kenyon, David Fortus
      Pages 101-137

    5. Exploring Challenges to Defining Learning Progressions

      • Lindsey Mohan, Julia Plummer
      Pages 139-147

  4. Assessing Learning Progressions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Developing Assessments For A Learning Progression on Carbon-Transforming Processes in Socio-Ecological Systems

      • Hui Jin, Charles W. Anderson
      Pages 151-181

    3. Assessing Students’ Progressing Abilities To Construct Scientific Explanations

      • Amelia Wenk Gotwals, Nancy Butler Songer, Lea Bullard
      Pages 183-210

    4. Using Learning Progressions To Inform Large-Scale Assessment

      • Alicia C. Alonzo, Teresa Neidorf, Charles W. Anderson
      Pages 211-240

    5. Eliciting Student Responses Relative To A Learning Progression

      • Alicia C. Alonzo
      Pages 241-254

  5. Modeling Learning Progressions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
      Download chapter PDF

    2. A Bayesian Network Approach To Modeling Learning Progressions

      • Patti West, Daisy Wise Rutstein, Robert J. Mislevy, Junhui Liu, Roy Levy, Kristen E. Dicerbo et al.
      Pages 257-292

    3. The Psychometric Modeling of Ordered Multiple-Choice Item Responses For Diagnostic Assessment With A Learning Progression

      • Derek C. Briggs, Alicia C. Alonzo
      Pages 293-316

    4. Responding To A Challenge That Learning Progressions Pose To Measurement Practice

      • Mark Wilson
      Pages 317-343

    5. Making Progress in The Modeling of Learning Progressions

      • Derek C. Briggs
      Pages 345-355
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Learning progressions – descriptions of increasingly sophisticated ways of thinking about or understanding a topic (National Research Council, 2007) – represent a promising framework for developing organized curricula and meaningful assessments in science. In addition, well-grounded learning progressions may allow for coherence between cognitive models of how understanding develops in a given domain, classroom instruction, professional development, and classroom and large-scale assessments. Because of the promise that learning progressions hold for bringing organization and structure to often disconnected views of how to teach and assess science, they are rapidly gaining popularity in the science education community. However, there are signi?cant challenges faced by all engaged in this work. In June 2009, science education researchers and practitioners, as well as scientists, psychometricians, and assessment specialists convened to discuss these challenges as part of the Learning Progressions in Science (LeaPS) conference. The LeaPS conference provided a structured forum for considering design decisions entailed in four aspects of work on learning progressions: de?ning learning progressions; developing assessments to elicit student responses relative to learning progressions; modeling and interpreting student performance with respect to a learning progressions; and using learning progressions to in?uence standards, curricula, and teacher education. This book presents speci?c examples of learning progression work and syntheses of ideas from these examples and discussions at the LeaPS conference.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning Progressions in Science

  • Book Subtitle: Current Challenges and Future Directions

  • Editors: Alicia C. Alonzo, Amelia Wenk Gotwals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-824-7

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-824-7Published: 30 July 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 496

  • Topics: Education, general

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Societies and partnerships

Back to top

Search

Navigation