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Designing for Engineering: A Model for Integrating Engineering and Science NGSS Middle School Benchmark Assessments

By Maia K. Binding and Lauren Brodsky

This paper describes the project design approach for developing item sets for the NGSS engineering performance expectations (PEs) for middle school. It further examines how the design approach allows the integration of assessments for engineering PEs and for science PEs and how resulting item sets elicit three-dimensional responses from students for both PEs.

Year: 2022

Pages: 14

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Topics:

  • Assessments
  • NGSS

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