UIC Researchers to Lead Illinois Science Assessment Partnership
The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Learning Sciences Research Institute, or LSRI, has been tapped to lead a two-year collaboration with 24 top Illinois science educators. The educators will develop clusters of items to be used on the Illinois Science Assessment, or ISA, the state’s annual science test administered to students enrolled in a public school district in grades 5, 8 and 11.
The work by LSRI will enable the state to assess students with respect to the new Illinois Learning Standards in Science, which are based on the Next Generation Science Standards, or NGSS. The latter is part of a multi-state effort in the U.S. to integrate science knowledge across the dimensions of disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts.
The UIC-based group is backed by a $700,000 grant, which is supported by the Illinois State Board of Education through a contract with Southern Illinois University-Carbondale with funds from the U.S. Department of Education.
Co-leader of the project is James Pellegrino, co-director of LSRI, who has produced influential research related to student learning, instruction and assessment for more than 30 years. He is a frequent leader of local and national large-scale research and development projects focused on assessment of student learning in various areas of mathematics and science, from kindergarten through college.
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