Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 308 (Hynes Convention Center)
The Virtual Performance Assessment Project at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education (vpa.gse.harvard.edu) is studying the feasibility
of using virtual performance-based assessments for measuring science
inquiry skills that are situated in an authentic science problem. In
these assessments, students take on the role of a scientist and have
to explore the virtual environment to gather data around a problem and
then build a claim. This presentation will focus on (1) design of the
game-like tasks (2) results from reliability and validity studies that
study its effectiveness (3) feedback from teachers on using these
assessments in their classrooms.
School of Education (vpa.gse.harvard.edu) is studying the feasibility
of using virtual performance-based assessments for measuring science
inquiry skills that are situated in an authentic science problem. In
these assessments, students take on the role of a scientist and have
to explore the virtual environment to gather data around a problem and
then build a claim. This presentation will focus on (1) design of the
game-like tasks (2) results from reliability and validity studies that
study its effectiveness (3) feedback from teachers on using these
assessments in their classrooms.