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Science Sampler: Bushwhacking for Bones
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An Earthwatch Institute Moose and Wolves Expedition to Isle Royale in Lake Superior was an excellent professional development opportunity in which the author built camaraderie with fellow teachers and created a predator…
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Negative Student Response to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms:
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Recent research has supported the use of student-centered teaching practices, such as active learning, because of its effectiveness in improving student learning and retention when compared with traditional, lecture-…
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The Role of Question-Asking in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
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Undergraduate research is a high-impact educational practice for which effective mentoring has been identified as a key factor in determining its success. Some researchers have argued that effective mentors help…
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Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering
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We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were interested in how the ELC would support teachers’ science, mathematics, and…
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Three-Dimensional Classroom Assessment Tasks
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Practical advice from veteran teachers
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This article looks at the effects of environmental factors such as classification, residence location, and employment status of Hispanic students who unsuccessfully completed first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) at…
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Toward Equity for Multilingual Learners
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A Model for a Data Analysis– and Literature-Intensive Undergraduate Course
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This article describes the use of literature to broaden students’ skills in content comprehension, data analysis, modeling, and productive scientific discussion. The design builds on existing models to maximize student…
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Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning
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Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their…
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Transforming to a Successful STEM School
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Technology Meets Pedagogy: Comparing Classroom Response Systems
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The author of this article explores the impact of different student response systems in successive years in a general education human biology course.