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How Physics Teachers Model Student Thinking and Plan Instructional Responses When Using Learning-Progression-Based Assessment Information
written by Alicia C. Alonzo and Andrew Elby
One vision for the classroom use of learning progressions (LPs) involves using diagnostic assessments to determine a student's LP "level" in order to make instructional decisions. However, little is known about how experienced teachers reason about assessment information and thus how LP-based information might support their instructional decision-making.  In this paper, we explore five experienced teachers' interactions with the same set of LP-based score reports to address the following questions: (1) What assumptions do teachers make about student thinking as they interact with LP-based assessment information? (2) What instructional reasoning is supported by these assumptions? We find that teachers conceptualize and use the LP levels differently from how the LP designers intended, but that the LP-based diagnostic information can be helpful to them in other, sometimes unanticipated, ways.
Physics Education Research Conference 2015
Part of the PER Conference series
College Park, MD: July 29-30, 2015
Pages 31-34
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Education - Applied Research
- Pedagogy
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Education - Basic Research
- Cognition
= Cognition Development
- Teacher Characteristics
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A. Alonzo and A. Elby, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, 2015, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13830&DocID=4248).
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A. Alonzo and A. Elby, How Physics Teachers Model Student Thinking and Plan Instructional Responses When Using Learning-Progression-Based Assessment Information, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, 2015, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13830&DocID=4248>.
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Alonzo, A., & Elby, A. (2015, July 29-30). How Physics Teachers Model Student Thinking and Plan Instructional Responses When Using Learning-Progression-Based Assessment Information. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD. Retrieved October 8, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13830&DocID=4248
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Alonzo, Alicia, and Andrew Elby. "How Physics Teachers Model Student Thinking and Plan Instructional Responses When Using Learning-Progression-Based Assessment Information." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, July 29-30, 2015. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13830&DocID=4248 (accessed 8 October 2024).
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Alonzo, Alicia, and Andrew Elby. "How Physics Teachers Model Student Thinking and Plan Instructional Responses When Using Learning-Progression-Based Assessment Information." Physics Education Research Conference 2015. College Park, MD: 2015. 31-34 of PER Conference. 8 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13830&DocID=4248>.
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