Success in Science Years 7 & 8 Assessment & S4SA (Stage 4 Science Assessment) booklet

The other Success in Science books will help you to learn your science. However, it is possible to know your science well and still do badly in science tests. Then your teacher and your parents will think that you know less than you do. Success in Science Years 7 & 8 Science Assessment will help you show how much you really know in science tests. There are no magic tricks involved and this book will not help you much if you don't know the science in the first place. This book was written to help you understand what examiners expect and how to give it to them.

Success in Science Years 7 & 8 Assessments contains two sample papers similar to the recently developed ESSA tests trialled by some schools in preparation for a possible regime of external  objective testing in Science at the Year 8 level in NSW. Included with this book is the S4SA (Stage 4 Science Assessment) Booklet which contains the stimulus pages used in the sample tests.

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • The Success in Science series
  • How to use this book
  • Syllabus, programs, lessons, tests, reports
• 2 What is 'science'?
• 3 What is 'content' in science?
  • Contexts
  • Prescribed Focus Areas
  • Domains
• 4 How is reading used in science?
  • The particular style of science test language
  • Using 'key verbs' to understand test questions
• 5 What are 'tests' in science?
  • Types and purposes of science tests
  • The Essential Secondary Science Assessment
• 6 Science test questions
  • Multiple Choice
  • Matching
  • Sequencing
  • Labelling
  • Short Answer
  • Extended Answer
• 7 Stage Four Science Assessment (S4SA)
  • S4SA 1
  • S4SA 2
• 8 Answers
• Stimulus magazine (20pp) separate inclusion