Local and Classroom Level
As Vermont continues to refine its implementation of the NGSS, educators and administrators will need to work together to develop a robust and varied assessment system that includes authentic, equitable and personalized formative and summative assessments.
The goal of the NGSS is to help students develop the skills and dispositions to use scientific and engineering practices, cross-cutting conceptual themes and major disciplinary core ideas to deepen their learning and solve problems across multiple contexts. The AOE has developed a science performance assessment template and a quality criteria check list to help educators build, evaluate and/or redesign their classroom level assessments.
For more information regarding classroom level science assessment, please download the PowerPoint of the National Research Council’s Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards and visit the AOE‘s State and Local Assessment Page.
State and Local Assessment Resources
- Developing NGSS Assessments to Evaluate the Efficacy of Curriculum Interventions - Articulates an approach to designing assessments for the purpose of evaluating curriculum interventions intended to support implementation of NGSS.
- Stanford NGSS Assessment Project (SNAP) - Contains research articles and sample NGSS tasks
- The Concord Consortium - Searchable interactive tasks through different combinations of DCIs, SEPs and CCCs.
Questions?
Email Kathryn Rossman.