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Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions
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Astronomy throughout the year
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Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning
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Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…
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General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…
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Understanding Genetic Drift With Conceptual and Mathematical Models
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why…
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Biosand Filters for Water Purification
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A Design Heuristic for Analyzing and Interpreting Data
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Students reasoning with data in an authentic science environment had the opportunity to learn about the process of science and the world around them while developing skills to analyze and interpret self-collected and…
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Science That’s Out of This World
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