Description:
Scientific inquiries provide learning opportunities that develop students’ abilities to obtain and reason with evidence, to develop and evaluate explanations, to develop and evaluate standards of evidence, to represent and communicate scientific data and ideas, and to engage in argumentation practices. However, the traditional inquiry assessment ignores the development of students’ experimental skills, which brings along lots of problems and needs to be reformed. This paper studies preliminarily the devolopmental assessment of physics inquiry activity. With a year long practical teaching experience and assessment results on students, the paper analyzes and examines the experiment of devolopmental assessment in order to explore a brand new way of assessment that caters for students' diversified characters, that develops their scientific literacy, that improves their abilities of self-diagnose, self-control and sustainable development.