Active Assessment
Assessing Scientific Inquiry

This book on active assessment, a new approach to scientific inquiry, begins with a theoretical introduction to the conceptual and practical aspects of scientific inquiry assessment. Then it details a case study of the development and use of active assessment.

Accordingly a book of this type should provide an important service for all active scientific inquiry programs in that it presents for the first time a concept and method for assessing scientific inquiry on the undergraduate and graduate levels. This book could provide an interesting answer to this situation of a required educational context without developed methodologies for evaluation.

Section One: The Theory and Practice of Active Assessment.- Active Assessment.- Conceptualizing Scientific Inquiry.- Contextualized Performance Based Assessment Tools.- A Framework for the Development of a Contextualized and Comprehensive Assessment Strategy for Undergraduate Scientific Inquiry.- Section Two: Assessing the Scientific Inquiry Process of the Isolation and Genomic Annotation of Novel Bacteriophage (The PHIRE Program): An Assessment Case Study.- A Description of the Phage Hunting Integrating Research and Education (PHIRE) Program.- The PHIRE Program Assessment Strategy.- PHIRE Assessment Tools.- A Researcher-Educators Experience of Active Assessment.