This MSP RETA project will develop a set of comprehensive subject matter assessment tools that can function as diagnostic tools to identify teachers' strength and weaknesses across grade levels. The assessment items will measure the extent to which teachers and students have mastery of the K-12 NRC Content Standards and the AAAS Benchmarks in Physical Science and Eartha nd Space Science. The application of psychometric models aligned with cognitive research findings will be used to establish scales and substests that accurately guage scientific understanding needed for teaching pre-college science courses. The assessment items will be reviewed by science faculty to ensure validity.
The project will work with MSP Institutes both as a technical assistance project and as a site for research.
The Principal Investigator of MOSART: Misconception Oriented Standards-based Assessment Resource for Teachers is Philip Sadler.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.cfa.harvard.edu/ smgphp/
mosart/ index.html
.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the MOSART
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
MOSART: Misconception Oriented Standards-based Assessment Resource for Teachers project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
