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This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies o...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize th...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
Journal Article
Using Cogenerative Dialogues to Improve High School Students’ Internships With Scientists
By Pei-Ling Hsu
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify fo...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine wh...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
Journal Article
Reimagining the 5 Practices for Effective and Equitable Discourse
By Kristin Cook, Sahar Alameh, Cathrine Maiorca, L. Octavia Tripp, Craig Schroeder, Margaret Mohr-Schroeder
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students reco...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed ...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass...
By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students r...
By Page Keeley, Francis Eberle and Chad Dorsey
Web Seminar
Archive: Using Federal Relief Funding to Support Science Education, July 15, 2021
COVID-19 has affected schools and students across the United States in ways that may not be fullyunderstood for decades. As a result, Congress has mad...