Written for school and district wide administrators, professional development specialists, science department heads, and individual science teachers who wish to develop performance-based assessments for their classrooms.

This is a step-by-step guide to developing performance-based curriculum for science. The book is based on the adopted United States national standards in science. It is filled with benchmarks and specific curriculum examples which reflect all the requirements of restructured curriculum: student identification of the problem to be solved; the use of multiple problem-solving strategies; and real-world applications.