Classroom Assessment Techniques: Interviews
http://archive.wceruw.org/cl1/flag/cat/interviews/interviews1.htm

Mike U. Smith, Sherry A. Southerland, The National Institute for Science Education; College Level One Team


This page describes the technique of using interviews to assess student understanding. The assessment tool is one of a series of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) provided by the Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) website. The CATs of FLAG were constructed as a resource for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructors to emphasize deeper levels of learning and to give instructors valuable feedback during a course. Interviews enable instructors to judge the extent of understanding students have developed with respect to a series of well-focused, conceptually-related scientific ideas. This site provides an overview of this assessment instrument including information about how to use classroom interviews to their maximum benefit. The site is also linked to a set of discipline-specific "tools" that can be downloaded for immediate use, as well as supplementary links and sources to further explore this assessment tool.

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Subject: Education:Assessment
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Overview/Summary
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)