A PROCEDURE FOR DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC THINKING ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS BASED ON TEXTBOOK MATERIALS
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Abstract
In the context of implementing the 2018 General Education Curriculum, assessing students’ scientific thinking is an important requirement; however, the lack of effective assessment tools remains a major challenge for teachers. Using an action research approach, this study proposes a procedure for developing scientific thinking assessment questions by drawing on available materials in textbooks. A three-step framework was designed and applied to construct five illustrative question clusters based on content from the Grade 12 Physics textbook. The findings provide both a theoretical framework and a versatile tool that enables teachers to make use of textbook materials to design scientific thinking assessment tasks suitable for a variety of instructional activities. The flexibility of the procedure also allows it to be extended to other natural science subjects, including Chemistry and Biology.
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question construction process, thinking assessment, textbook analysis, scientific thinking
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