SEAR science resource
Your answer to assessment in science

The Science Education Assessment Resources (SEAR) provide a wide range of assessment resources (or 'tasks') suitable for use across the compulsory years of schooling. The tasks have been indexed to six levels as described in the scientific literacy conceptual framework.

SEAR also contains general information about science assessment and links to key teacher resources including the various State and Territory curriculum frameworks.

The assessment tasks

• include items that can be used for diagnostic, formative and summative purposes
• are supported by rich marking keys
• are linked to a scientific literacy progress map and scale that connects with
• the OECD PISA assessments for 15-year olds
• the national primary science assessments for Year 6 students

You can search for resources appropriate to your students in three ways:

• search by keyword – where you might search on 'solar energy' or 'insects'
• search by task code – where you want to find a particular task you have accessed previously
• main search – where you want to be quite specific about the conceptual strand, context, the level or the type of task you are looking for.

Tasks have been made available in PDF and WORD formats.

SEAR is LIVE!

(http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/sear/)