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Interest in science and technology is essential to good citizenship. By adapting items from other scales and writing new items, the authors developed the Attitudes Toward Science and Technology scale, containing 30…
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Research and Teaching: Undergraduate Success—and Failure—in Completing a Simple Circuit
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This research study was motivated by physics educators’ ubiquitous citing of the batteries and bulbs study (Thiberghien and Delacote, 1976) even though the literature has not reported on surveys of a large population…
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This article discusses a Volcanic Concept Survey, an instrument designed to measure conceptual understanding of volcanic processes and hazards. Scores from this survey show that students who learned about volcanoes from…
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Research and Teaching: An Analysis of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) in a Science Lecture Classroom
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Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is an online tool being used to integrate a writing component in classrooms. In an introductory zoology lecture class, the authors found that CPR-assigned scores were significantly higher…