Development of Science Test Items
IPST has responsible for improving quality of teaching and learning in Science, Mathematics and Technology, emphasis on K-12 levels. To achieve this objective, Standard andAssessment Department has been working on…
Precharn Dechsri
An Evaluation of Science Textbooks
The Thai Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551 (A.D. 2008) has stipulated that educational institutions should promote and support the utilization of various high-quality learning medias to develop individual student…
Assessing Subject Matter Knowledge of Science Teachers
In Thailand, the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has launched a policy for assessing teachers’, subject matter knowledge since 2009. This policy required in-serviceteachers from 185 educational service…
The Current Practices of Science Teachers in Authentic Assessment
The purposes of this research were to 1) determine primary science teachers’, ,view of authentic assessment and 2) examine problems in developing and using authentic assessment in primary science classrooms. Samples…
The Development of Metacognitive Inventory to Measure Students’ Metacognitive Knowledge Related to Chemical Bonding Conceptions
Since the mid-1970’,s metacognition has become one of the major fields of cognitive and educational psychology research. However, an assessment on metacognitive ability has been still problematic because it is…
Development of Conceptual Status Test to Examine Conceptual Change in Classrooms
Determining students’, conceptual status can help teachers to examine whether conceptual change occurs in classrooms. Several methods such as interview and classroom observation have been used to examine conceptual status,…