Tier 1 Instructional Strategies To Improve K-4 Reading Comprehension
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
Expert Notes AvailableView expert commentary on strengths and cautions for this instrument
Strengths
Validated with a large and diverse sample (over 20,000 students across grades 4–12). Carefully aligned to a detailed learning progression with multiple levels of conceptual complexity.
Cautions
Based primarily on multiple-choice items, which may not fully capture students’ deeper reasoning or ability to apply energy concepts in real-world or open-ended contexts.
This assessment is based on a learning progression framework designed to measure students’ understanding of energy concepts from upper elementary through high school. The instrument evaluates knowledge across four major categories: energy forms and transformations, energy transfer, energy dissipation and degradation, and energy conservation, with a total of 14 specific energy ideas represented. Assessment items are multiple-choice and aligned to three levels of conceptual complexity: basic, intermediate, and advanced. Items range from observable phenomena, such as changes in temperature or motion, to more abstract explanations involving atomic and molecular processes. The full assessment includes a large set of items administered across grades 4–12. Scores are used to examine how students’ understanding of energy develops across different concepts and increasing levels of complexity within the learning progression.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
69 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Developer
Cari Herrmann-Abell; George DeBoer
Price
No fee
Contact
gdeboer@aaas.org
Open Access
No
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Herrmann‐Abell, Cari F., and George E. DeBoer. "Investigating a learning progression for energy ideas from upper elementary through high school." Journal of Research in Science Teaching (55): 68-93. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED581288.pdf
Item Type
Multiple choice
