Improving learning in science with formative assessment / Dylan Wiliam -- On the role and impact of formative assessment on science inquiry teaching and learning / Richard J. Shavelson [and others] -- From practice to research and back: perspectives and tools in assessing for learning / Jim Minstrell [and others] -- Documenting early science learning / Jacqueline Jones and Rosalea Courtney -- Using science notebooks as an informal assessment tool / Alicia C. Alonzo -- Assessing middle school students' content knowledge and reasoning through written scientific explanations / Katherine L. McNeill and Joseph S. Krajcik -- Making meaning: the use of science notebooks as an effective assessment tool / Olga Amaral and Michael Klentschy -- Assessment of laboratory investigations / Arthur Eisenkraft and Matthew Anthes-Washburn -- Assessing science knowledge-seeing more through the formative assessment lens / Kathy Long, Larry Malone, and Linda De Lucchi -- Exploring the role of technology-based simulations in science assessment: the Calipers project / Edys S. Quellmalz [and others] -- Using standards and cognitive research to inform the design and use of formative assessment probes / Page D. Keeley and Francis Q. Eberle -- Assessment linked to science learning goals: probing student thinking through assessment / George E. DeBoer [and others] -- Assessing science literacy using extended constructed-response items / Audrey B. Champagne and Vicky L. Kouba, and Linda Gentiluomo -- Aligning classroom-based assessment with high-stakes tests / Marian Pasquale and Marian Grogan -- Systems for state science assessment: findings of the National Research Council's Committee on Test Design for K-12 science achievement / Meryl W. Bertenthal [and others] -- From reading to science: assessment that supports and describes student achievement / Peter Afflerbach -- What research says about science assessment with English language learners / Kathryn LeRoy and Okhee Lee -- Washington State's science assessment system: one district's approach to preparing teachers and students / Elaine Woo and Kathryn Show -- Linking assessment to student achievement in a professional development model / Janet L. Struble, Mark A. Templin, and Charlene M. Czerniak -- Using assessment design as a model of professional development / Paul J. Kuerbis and Linda B. Mooney -- Using formative assessment and feedback to improve science teacher practice / Paul Hickman, Drew Isola, and Marc Reif -- Using data to move schools from resignation to results: the power of collaborative inquiry / Nancy Love