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Exploratory Behavior Scale (EBS)
Topics: Student LearningThe Exploratory Behavior Scale (EBS) is an observational assessment tool designed to measure young children’s hands-on exploratory behavior in interactive learning environments. The instrument is designed to capture the quality of children’s interaction with materials and to enable comparisons…View InstrumentPreschool Assessment of Science (PAS)
Topics: Student LearningThe Preschool Assessment of Science (PAS) is a performance-based assessment designed to measure preschool children’s science knowledge and inquiry skills through hands-on tasks. The instrument focuses on children’s ability to engage in a cycle of scientific reasoning, including making predictions,…View InstrumentCustom-built electronic toy to test causal structure knowledge
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment is a task-based instrument designed to measure preschool children’s understanding of causal relationships through structured interaction with a physical system. The instrument uses a custom-built device consisting of two gears and a switch, where different underlying causal…View InstrumentLife Science Assessment
Topics: Student LearningThe Life Science Assessment provides insight into children’s emerging inquiry skills and conceptual development by focusing on how they reason about real-world phenomena, rather than simply what they know. The assessment consists of structured, hands-on tasks centered on familiar physical science…View InstrumentThe Computational Thinking Test (CT-test)
Topics: Student LearningThe Computational Thinking Test (CT-test) is a multiple-choice assessment designed to measure students’ computational thinking skills across a range of core programming concepts in elementary and secondary educational contexts.The test evaluates several dimensions of computational thinking,…View InstrumentThrough Course Task (TCT)
Topics: Student LearningThrough Course Tasks (TCTs) are a set of performance-based science assessment tasks designed to measure students’ three-dimensional science learning within classroom instruction. They are implemented across grade levels, including elementary, as part of a broader, balanced assessment system that…View InstrumentBlock-based Coding Assessment
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment is a programming knowledge measure designed to evaluate young children’s understanding of foundational coding concepts after completing a multi-week instructional unit using ScratchJr. The assessment consists of a series of structured tasks that require students to interpret,…View InstrumentCreative Coding Rubric
Topics: Student LearningEvaluates coding skills and project design across 13 categories. Unahalekhaka & Bers (2022) validated with 228 ScratchJr projects.Unahalekhaka & Bers (2022) developed the first version, "ScratchJr Project Rubric"; Blake-West et al. (2025) redesigned the rubric to treat creative coding as a…View InstrumentSTEM Design Portfolio (Bartholomew et al., 2019)
Topics: Student LearningThis design portfolio measure is an assessment approach used to document and analyze young students’ thinking and decision-making during open-ended design tasks. The measure is designed to examine students’ design processes and reasoning over time within authentic, open-ended STEM learning…View InstrumentScience-K Inventory (SK-I)
Topics: Student LearningThe Science-K Inventory (SK-I) is an assessment instrument designed to measure primary students’ scientific reasoning skills through structured, scenario-based tasks. The instrument consists of 30 multiple-choice items organized into three components: experimentation, data interpretation, and…View InstrumentConceptual Assessment of Children's Ideas about Evolution
Topics: Student LearningThe Conceptual Assessment of Children’s Ideas about Evolution (CACIE) is a standardized, interview-based assessment tool designed to measure young children’s understanding of key evolutionary concepts.The assessment focuses on children’s ideas about the core evolutionary principles of variation,…View InstrumentHands-on Scientific Reasoning Assessment (Lazonder & Janssen, 2021)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment is a performance-based instrument designed to measure children’s scientific reasoning through hands-on inquiry tasks. The test evaluates five key scientific reasoning processes: predicting, experimenting, interpreting data, evaluating data, and drawing conclusions.View InstrumentData Analysis and Graphing Assessment (Watson et al., 2024)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of task-based activities designed to measure primary students’ ability to interpret data, construct graphical representations, and make predictions using interpolation and extrapolation within STEM contexts. Students engage in hands-on investigations, collect quantitative…View InstrumentComputational Thinking Rubric (CTR)
Topics: Student LearningThe Computational Thinking Rubric (CTR) is an analytic assessment tool designed to evaluate students’ computational thinking skills across multiple domains within learning activities such as robotics education. The rubric includes six core components: formulating problems, abstraction, logical…View InstrumentEngineering Design Assessment (McElhaney et al., 2019)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of a set of task-based instruments designed to measure upper elementary students’ proficiency with engineering design concepts aligned to NGSS performance expectations. The assessment includes multiple tasks that target key aspects of engineering design, such as defining…View InstrumentBig Ideas in Science Assessment (BISA)
Topics: Student LearningThe Big Ideas in Science Assessment (BISA) is a curriculum-based science assessment designed to measure students’ understanding of core scientific concepts aligned with standards. The instrument is structured around “big ideas” in science, emphasizing key conceptual understandings rather than…View InstrumentMaryland Integrated Science Assessments (MISA) - Practice Test
Topics: Student LearningThe MCAP science practice test assessments are a set of sample assessment tasks designed to measure students’ understanding of science content and their ability to apply scientific reasoning across grade levels. These assessments reflect the structure and expectations of the Maryland Comprehensive…View InstrumentInheritance and Variation Concepts Assessment (Ibourk et al., 2018)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment is a paper-and-pencil instrument designed to measure upper elementary students’ understanding of inheritance of traits and variation of traits. The instrument includes a combination of multiple-choice and constructed-response items that target key genetics concepts aligned with…View InstrumentOral Retell Science Understanding Assessment (Faggella-Luby et al., 2016)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment uses student retellings of an informational science text to measure both reading comprehension and science conceptual understanding. Students are asked to read a selected passage and then orally retell what they remember, with minimal prompting, allowing researchers to capture how…View InstrumentScience Matters Pre/post Assessment
Topics: Student LearningThe Science Matters lesson units include an integrated system of assessments embedded within multi-lesson instructional sequences across elementary science domains, including life science, physical science, and earth science. Each unit is organized as a coherent progression of lessons connected…View InstrumentEnergy Literacy Open-Ended Assessment
Topics: Student LearningThis energy literacy assessment is an open-ended survey instrument designed to measure elementary students’ understanding of energy sources, energy systems, and the environmental impacts of energy use. Items ask students to identify renewable energy sources, explain which sources should be used…View InstrumentNAEP Sample Items
Topics: Student LearningThe NAEP Science Sample Items are a collection of released assessment questions drawn from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), designed to measure students’ science achievement at the national level. These items represent the types of questions used in operational NAEP…View InstrumentForces and Motion Concepts Assessment (Chen et al. 2013)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of 20 selected-response items, each aligned with specific science concepts. These items are organized around six core content areas: force balance, force and speed, friction, force and mass, air resistance, and energy. Each question requires students to apply their…View InstrumentEnergy Concepts Assessment (Herrmann-Abell & DeBoer, 2017)
Topics: Student LearningThis 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…View Instrument3D Energy Explanation Assessment (Herrmann-Abell & DeBoer, 2017)
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of a set of tasks designed to measure elementary students’ ability to explain energy-related phenomena using three-dimensional science learning. The tasks present real-world scenarios followed by a combination of constructed-response and multiple-choice items that require…View InstrumentNext Generation Science Assessment (NGSA) 3-5
Topics: Student LearningThe Next Generation Science Assessment elementary assessment tasks are a set of online, scenario-based performance assessments designed to measure students’ progress toward Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) performance expectations. These assessments are organized by grade band (3–5) and are…View InstrumentProgression of Understanding Matter (PUM)
Topics: Student LearningThe Progression of Understanding Matter (PUM) is an assessment instrument designed to measure students’ conceptual understanding of matter across elementary, middle, and high school grade levels. The instrument consists of three linked forms tailored to different grade bands (grades 3–6, 7–9, and…View InstrumentTennessee District Science Network Task Library
Topics: Student LearningThe elementary assessments developed through the Tennessee District Science Network (TDSciN) are a set of performance-based science tasks designed to measure students’ three-dimensional learning aligned with current science standards. Each assessment is structured around a phenomenon- or problem…View InstrumentComputational Thinking Assessment (Gane et al., 2021)
Topics: Student LearningThe learning trajectory-based computational thinking (CT) assessments are a set of paper-and-pencil instruments designed to measure upper elementary students’ CT knowledge and skills within integrated instructional contexts. Developed by Gane and colleagues (2021), these assessments are aligned…View InstrumentAssessment to Measure Students' Argumentation
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of two complementary tasks designed to measure elementary students’ ability to construct and evaluate scientific arguments based on key epistemic criteria. The instrument targets four core components of argumentation: causal claims, coherence of explanations, use of…View Instrument