The Assessment of Hands-On Elementary Science Programs

Client:

Program Evaluation and Study Group, Lesley College

Audience:

Educators, administrators, and educational researchers

Goal:

Transform manuscripts generated for a National Science Foundation-funded conference into a cohesive book that introduces educators nationwide to alternative methods of assessing students' science learning

Role:

Developmental editing, copyediting, project management, and production supervision

Excerpt from acknowledgements by George Hein, Editor

Laurie Beckelman provided wonderful editorial assistance. She gently but firmly managed to make each of us face the ambiguities of our sentences and the natural tendency to put things off.