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Teaching, learning and assessing science 5-12 / Wynne Harlen.

By: Harlen, Wynne.
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006Edition: 4th ed.Description: xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 141290871X; 9781412908719; 1412908728; 9781412908726.Subject(s): Science -- Study and teaching (Elementary) | Science -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Contents:
Part I: About learning in science -- 1. Learning in science -- 2. Children learning -- 3. The goals of science education -- Part II: Opportunities for learning -- 4. Providing for development 5-12 -- 5. Teachers' and children's questions -- 6. Motivation for learning -- Part III: Using assessment for learning -- 7. Helping learning: a framework for decisions -- 8. Gathering and interpreting evidence of children's science process skills and attitudes -- 9. Helping development of process skills and attitudes of science -- 10. Gathering and interpreting evidence of children's ideas -- 11. Helping the development of scientific ideas -- 12. The children's role in using assessment for learning -- Part IV: Managing learning in science -- 13. Summarising and recording learning -- 14. Resources for learning science -- 15. Managing science at the school level.
Summary: Now thoroughly revised and completely updated, this text provides a sound theoretical framework for teaching science that is firmly grounded in classroom practice and covers all stages of education for students aged 5 to 12.

Previous edition: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.

Part I: About learning in science -- 1. Learning in science -- 2. Children learning -- 3. The goals of science education -- Part II: Opportunities for learning -- 4. Providing for development 5-12 -- 5. Teachers' and children's questions -- 6. Motivation for learning -- Part III: Using assessment for learning -- 7. Helping learning: a framework for decisions -- 8. Gathering and interpreting evidence of children's science process skills and attitudes -- 9. Helping development of process skills and attitudes of science -- 10. Gathering and interpreting evidence of children's ideas -- 11. Helping the development of scientific ideas -- 12. The children's role in using assessment for learning -- Part IV: Managing learning in science -- 13. Summarising and recording learning -- 14. Resources for learning science -- 15. Managing science at the school level.

Now thoroughly revised and completely updated, this text provides a sound theoretical framework for teaching science that is firmly grounded in classroom practice and covers all stages of education for students aged 5 to 12.

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