diagnostic assessment

Diagnostic assessment is assessment of students' current thinking (often in particular, to detect common alternative conceptions), used to inform teaching. It can be seen as a form of 'formative assessment'.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.