{"id":1290,"date":"2011-04-08T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2011-04-08T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:20:59","slug":"2-good-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"2 good links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two websites worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/assessment.aaas.org\/\">AAAS Science Assessment <\/a>website is a great resource for understanding what students do and do not know, based on tons of research. Teachers, this site is worth your time to check out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The assessment items on this Web site are the result of more than a decade of research and development by Project 2061, a long-term science education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<\/p>\n<p>Here you will find free access to more than 600 items. The items:<br \/>\n&#8212; Are appropriate for middle and early high school students.<br \/>\n&#8212; Test student understanding in the earth, life, physical sciences, and the nature of science.<br \/>\n&#8212; Test for common misconceptions as well as correct ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>James R. Hofmann, Professor of Liberal Studies California State University Fullerton has a website for his course <a href=\"http:\/\/nsmserver2.fullerton.edu\/departments\/chemistry\/evolution_creation\/web\/\">Philosophy\/Liberal Studies 333: Evolution and Creation<\/a>. The site is packed full of links to darn near everything and anything you could ever want on the subject. This one is worth bookmarking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two websites worth checking out. The AAAS Science Assessment website is a great resource for understanding what students do and do not know, based on tons of research. Teachers, this site is worth your time to check out. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-kO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3308,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3308","url_meta":{"origin":1290,"position":0},"title":"Florida Science Tests: A move in the right direction but I still have questions","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It took four years, but there is finally movement in the right direction for Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public school annual science assessments. 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