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Dear Colleagues, We are looking to develop a pre-post assessment for our third year (junior year) field school students. The field school is two-weeks long and consists of two 5-day exercises with a few one-day exercises in-between. Last spring these students (during their second year) took a one semester-long "Introduction to Field Methods" course followed by a week-long field school. You could say that most of them are novice to intermediate mappers (mostly novice). We realize that there are numerous skills associated with geologic field mapping and so we were thinking of limiting the pre-post to a few open-ended questions focused map-reading, planning for a field exercise or maybe exploring reasons to change a field strategy. Any pre-post assessment we develop would be in addition to the Purdue Visualization of Rotation instrument which will also be used. Any examples, ideas or suggestions are welcome. Best Regards, Joshua Caulkins -- Joshua Caulkins Science Teaching and Learning Fellow EOS Science Education Initiative Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of British Columbia Email: [log in to unmask]