STEM tasks assessment, using selected scales from the Instrument to Analyse Tasks by learners, teachers and raters

In competency-oriented education, tasks in science subjects have increased in importance in recent years. In addition, it is suggested that to develop a competency, a set of tasks with different functional embeddings is required. The aim of the research project is to provide subject-specific education, teacher training, and educational research with an empirically validated and tested measurement instrument with which task quality can be analyzed and subsequently assigned to central task types in the Learning Process Model (confrontation task, development task, exercises task, synthesis task, and transfer task). The Instrument to Analyse Tasks (IAT) consists of the following nine scales, each with one to four subscales: 1) chart of competencies, 2) relationship to daily life, 3) learners’ conceptions, 4) knowledge, 5) knowledge activities 6) forms of representation, 7) task openness, 8) learning supports, and 9) learning paths.