Collaborative Research: Supporting Instructional Decision Making: Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System.
Funded by the National Science Foundation ($2,999,996), this project is a collaborative effort between researchers from the University of Georgia, Michigan State University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and WestEd.
Timeline: 2021-2025
The significant shortage of workers in STEM careers is partially due to ineffective instructional practice. Among these, the value of educational assessment practice has been increasingly questioned to the point that assessments are perceived as negative, not informative, and may even be detrimental to students.
The "PASTA" project team will develop tools to examine how science teachers use automatically scored three-dimensional science assessment tasks and create supports for effective instruction when they use 3D assessment tasks, aligning with the vision of the Next Generation Science Standards.
