CBAL

The purpose of this report is to describe a science competency model and 3 related learning progressions, which were developed by applying the CBAL™ approach (Bennett & Gitomer, 2009) to the domain of middle school science. The Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and ...

This article shows how learning progressions — describing how students’ skills develop over time — can support teaching and assessments. It begins with a brief overview of research on learning progressions under the CBAL project, in order to demonstrate how test performance supports inferences...