🔬 Pedagogy Assessment Strategies for STEM
🧠 1. Conceptual Understanding Assessments
- Concept maps to reveal how students connect scientific or mathematical ideas
- Diagnostic questions (pre/post) to uncover misconceptions
- Two-tier questions (answer + reasoning) to assess depth of understanding
🧪 2. Inquiry & Scientific Thinking Assessments
- Claim–Evidence–Reasoning (CER) tasks
- Experimental design challenges
- Error analysis reflections where students explain what went wrong and why
- Data interpretation tasks using graphs, tables, or simulations
🧩 3. Engineering Design & Problem-Solving Assessments
- Design briefs with constraints and criteria
- Prototype evaluation rubrics
- Iteration journals documenting revisions and reasoning
- Failure analysis reports (Why did the design fail? What would you change?)
💻 4. Computational Thinking Assessments
- Algorithm explanation tasks
- Debugging challenges
- Flowchart creation
- Code annotation assessments (students explain what each part does)
📐 5. Mathematical Reasoning Assessments
- Open-ended problem-solving tasks
- Multiple-solution challenges (students must find more than one method)
- Justification rubrics for proofs or reasoning steps
- Real-world modeling tasks
🎓 6. Performance-Based Assessments
- STEM labs with rubrics
- Engineering challenges (bridges, circuits, robotics, etc.)
- Field investigations
- Maker-space projects
🗣️ 7. Communication & Collaboration Assessments
- STEM argumentation tasks (debates, structured discussions)
- Peer review protocols
- Teamwork rubrics for group engineering or lab work
- STEM presentations with criteria for clarity, accuracy, and reasoning
📊 8. Metacognitive & Reflective Assessments
- Learning journals
- Self-assessment checklists
- “What I used to think… now I think…” reflections
- Process portfolios documenting growth over time
🧪 9. Authentic & Project-Based Assessments
- Capstone STEM projects
- Community-based problem-solving tasks
- Research posters
- STEM fair evaluations
If you want, I can turn this into:
- a rubric,
- a teacher-friendly checklist,
- a bilingual version,
- or a visual chart for classroom use.
Just tell me the format you prefer, Lyd.
