1. Mohamed Nouristani Jim Evans Charles Butler September 22 nd PSPH 228 Assessment in K-12 Science Education

2.  Calculate the amount of work required to lift a five kg mass from the floor to a table top that is 1 m high.

3.  Take a minute to reflect on what you did to solve the problem.  Answer the following questions: ◦ Were you on track to solving the problem? Explain. ◦ What do you do that is helpful in solving the problem? ◦ When you’ve solved problems like this before, what difficulties did you have? Do these difficulties still get in the way?

4.  “Self-Knowledge: the wisdom to know one’s ignorance and how ones patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding”Wiggins and McTighe, 2006  Segue from facet 5, Empathy: ◦ As empathy involves getting into the feelings and worldview of others, with self- knowledge we analyze our own feelings.

5.  Positive examples provided in the text: ◦ A student using graphic organizers because she knows she’s a visual learner ◦ A mother realizes that issues with her daughter’s life are rooted in issues fro her own childhood.  Negative example provided in the text: ◦ “When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”  Two slides from now, you’ll give your own examples. Get ready!

6.  Metacognition ◦ Why we think what we do ◦ How we like to learn ◦ How our methods of learning help and inhibit our understanding ◦ Gained through Self-Reflection

7.  Both understanding and misconceptions come from our attempts to categorize and assimilate knowledge into our own scaffolding.  To gain self-knowledge of a subject, students consider how the new understanding might fit into their preconceived understandings of other phenomenon.  Self–Knowledge demands that we self- consciously question the way we see the world.

8.  As educators we tend to rely on categories and metaphors.  “Are children really like natural objects or phenomena to be treated as equal variables and “isolated”?  Educators need to do a better job at teaching and assessing self-reflection in order to bring a grater attention to self-knowledge.

9.  On a recent test 90% of students missed the following question: A golf ball rolls up a hill toward a miniature golf hole. Assume the direction toward the hole as being positive. If the ball starts with the speed of 2 m/s and slows at a constant rate of 0.5 m/s 2, what is its velocity after 2 seconds?  Those who got the problem wrong answered 3 m/s while the one who got it correct answered 1 m/s.

10.  In the process of solving the problem, what common mistake did the nine students likely make? (Empathy)  Do you think you would have gotten this problem correct if you had been asked it? Why or why not? (Self-knowledge)  What might you do in future problems to make sure that you don’t make the same mistake? (Self-knowledge)

11.  Mohamed Nouristani  Charles Butler  Jim Evans  Met September 13 th at Cardozo to discuss the material and split up tasks  Nouristani created the sample problems  Jim wrote the handout  Charles made the power point  Jim and Nouristani met on September 20 th at Cardozo High School  Jim sends his regards from Cardozo’s back to school night!