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Cornhole Predicts the Perfect Pitch
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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 recognize that heat flows from warmer objects or areas to cooler ones.
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This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and discourse patterns within student teams during class periods. Clicker…
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NGSS Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
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Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning
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This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…
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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 recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…
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The REACH Program Brings Science Practices to Students: A Teacher’s Perspective
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Why Are the Temperatures Changing?
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Making Critical Thinking Visible for Student Analysis and Reflection
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Practice critical-thinking skills with this phenomena-centered dinosaur bone activity.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that plants use their stored food to grow in the absence of light.
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Biological/Chemical Waste Management
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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, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…