Does the material include tasks and/or question sequences to guide student interpretation and reasoning about experiences with phenomena, representations, and ideas?

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Indicators of meeting the criterion

1. The material includes specific and relevant tasks and/or questions for the experience or reading.
2. The questions or tasks have helpful characteristics such as
1. framing important issues
2. helping students to relate their experiences with phenomena or representations to presented scientific ideas
3. helping students to make connections between their own ideas and the phenomena or representations observed
4. helping students to make connections between their own ideas and the presented scientific ideas
5. anticipating common student misconceptions
6. focusing on contrasts between student misconceptions and scientific alternatives.
Please note that while a single high quality task or question sequence might have only one of these characteristics, the set of sightings should exhibit several of them.
3. There are scaffolded sequences of questions or tasks (as opposed to separate questions or tasks).

Rating Scheme
Excellent: Material consistently meets all three indicators.
Satisfactory: Material consistently meets indicators 1 and 2.
Poor: Material meets indicator 1 at best.

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