Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections
DiscoTests: A New Approach to Assessment
Kurt Fischer's developmental approach informs "DiscoTest:" a diagnostic way for assessing knowledge across grade levels.
DiscoTests combine standardized and formative assessments that make it easy for middle- and high-school teachers to examine how well students understand what they are learning. The tests are built through careful research into the learning sequence needed to build understanding of any given concept. As a result, the tests become diagnostic tools that reveal where students are in this sequence and that suggest what they need to do next to increase their understanding.