Formative Assessment Probes
I was recently reading the September/October 2020 issue of \u201cScience & Children\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0\xa0In this issue, I read the \u201cFormative Assessment Probes\u201c column written by Page Keeley.\xa0 Her article was entitled \u201cUsing Formative Assessment Probes with Real or Virtual Field Trips.\u201d
Using a formative assessment probe prior to a real-time or virtual field trip activates students\u2019 thinking about the concepts and phenomena they will be learning about during their experience.