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Preparing Preservice K–8 Teachers for the Public School: Improving Evolution Attitudes, Misconceptions, and Legal Confusion

The study in this article examines the effectiveness of a curriculum on preservice teachers’ attitudes and knowledge of evolution and legalities of teaching it....

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Impact of a Robert Noyce Scholarship on STEM Teacher Recruitment

Funding from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program supports the University of Portland Noyce Scholars and Interns Program (University of Portland Noyce Program). This study examined the first 3 years of the University of Portland Noyce Progra...

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Using Clickers for Deliberate Practice in Five Large Science Courses

Clickers are often used as an active learning tool in face-to-face classes to enhance student engagement and assess student learning. In this article the authors share the variety of ways they use clicker questions to promote deliberate practice in l...

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Case Study: Assembling a Case Study Tool Kit: 10 Tools for Teaching With Cases

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. The author shares the strategies and tools that teachers can use to manage a case study classroom eff...

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Research and Teaching: What Determines Student Acceptance of Politically Controversial Scientific Conclusions?

The authors use large-scale survey data to explore the nature, extent, and determinants of student resistance to scientific conclusions about evolution, anthropogenic climate change, and the importance of vaccination....

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Research and Teaching: Show Me the Way: Future Faculty Prefer Directive Feedback When Trying Active Learning Approaches

In this study, the authors incorporate feedback as a key component of a pedagogical course for future faculty who had never taught or were currently novice teaching assistants. They studied (a) how future faculty’s teaching beliefs changed over the...

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Research and Teaching: Introducing Engineering Design to a Science Teaching Methods Course Through Educational Robotics and Exploring Changes in Views of Preservice Elementary Teachers

Preservice elementary teachers need to know how to integrate the engineering design process into their science teaching. In this article, the authors describe how they used the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit as part of a NGSS-aligned engineering unit in an ...

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Research and Teaching: Comparing Student Learning in the Team-Based Learning Classroom With Different Team Reporting Methods

The increase in classroom technology has resulted in the use of clickers and other audience response systems (ARS) for simultaneous reporting of choices in the team-based learning (TBL) classroom. A variety of techniques and practices using ARS techn...

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Research and Teaching: Improving the Science Teaching Self-Efficacy of Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Multiyear Study of a Hybrid Geoscience Course

This article describes the impact of a hybrid Earth and space science course, taught online and complemented by a 2-hour face-to-face lab, on the science teaching self-efficacy of elementary preservice teachers over a 3-year span....