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Methods and Strategies: The Reflective Assessment Technique
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Teachers often rely on student questions, their observations of students at work, and their own intuition to monitor how well students are learning. However, the authors found that teachers learn more about their…
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Weekly Reports: Student Reflections on Learning
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Weekly reports, a structured journal form of formative assessment, allow instructors to receive information from the students, to address students’ difficulties in a timely manner, and to alter their instruction based…
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Science Sampler: Teaching—A reflective process
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In this article, the authors describe how they used formative assessments to ferret out possible misconceptions among middle-school students in a unit about weather-related concepts. Because they teach fifth- and eighth…
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Research and Teaching: A Case Study on Reflective Writing
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Reflective writing is a student-centered approach widely used in science and engineering courses that helps students develop a holistic scientific mindset. The authors present a multiple case study in two science…
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Developing Patterns for Learning in Science Through Reflection
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The process of the development of critical thinking and knowledge application requires more than rote memorization and the ability to get correct answers on lab reports or on a multiple-choice test. Purposeful, guided…
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This study examines students’ selfreported self-regulated learning strategies tied to summative assessment in a nonmajors introductory biology course through a reflective-routine intervention.
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Commentary: Finding Purpose—Reflecting Upon Curriculum and Assessment
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An opinion piece about how the purpose of teaching plays a sginificant role in how lessons are received and valued. The challenge for teachers is to critically reflect upon the purpose of their curriculum and…
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Implementation of an Explicit and Reflective Pedagogy in Introductory Biology Laboratories
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Students need to reflect on the practice of science to fully understand the nature of science (NOS), which is an important component of scientific literacy. In this paper, the authors describe how to implement an…
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