%0 Journal Article
%T Investigating Taiwanese 9th-graders¡¯ scientific literacy via authentic assessment
%A Shu-Nu CHANG
%J Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching
%D 2008
%I Hong Kong Institute of Education
%X The purpose of this study is to introduce Taiwanese last curriculum standards and the development of authentic assessment to investigate 9th-graders¡¯ scientific literacy in Taiwan. From this study, it was revealed that authentic assessment provided another possibility to evaluate students¡¯ scientific cognition better than the traditional achievement tests. Besides, the hands-on activity developed by this study offered an opportunity to make students enjoy the examination more and showed a higher consistency with lower-achievement students¡¯ performance on the national entrance exam. The discussion and implementation are presented.
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