Hui Jin

The goal of this four-year project was to develop and validate an NGSS-aligned and Learning Progression-based assessment tool for Mathematical Thinking in Science (MTS) at the high school level. MTS refers to abstracting relevant measurable variables from 'messy' phenomena, identifying mathematical relationships among the variables, and using scientific ideas to explain the mathematical relationships. Learning progressions (LPs) are "descriptions of the successively more sophisticated ways o...