Assessing Classroom Learning: How Students Use Their Knowledge and Experience to Answer Classroom Achievement Test Questions in Science and Social Studies.

Nuthall, Graham; Alton-Lee, Adrienne

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ERIC Number: EJ504321

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Publication Date: 1995

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Assessing Classroom Learning: How Students Use Their Knowledge and Experience to Answer Classroom Achievement Test Questions in Science and Social Studies.

Nuthall, Graham; Alton-Lee, Adrienne

American Educational Research Journal, v32 n1 p185-223 Spr 1995

Observational studies of student learning from classroom experience in science and social studies in elementary and middle school classrooms were carried out with 14 students. A model is described that explains how students use multilayered episodic and semantic memory for learning experience and related knowledge to answer achievement test items. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Experience, Knowledge Level, Learning, Memory, Middle Schools, Observation, Sciences, Social Studies, Test Items

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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