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Nationally, students fail anatomy and physiology courses at some of the highest rates compared to other courses at the undergraduate level. Formative ...
By Amy Benton and Drew Hataway
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Authentic assessments for an in-person or online science course for pre-service teachers
Creating authentic science assessments that engage students in conceptual understanding and provide evidence of their learning is challenging. Student...
By Stefany M. Sit and Laura Zeller
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An introductory physics course may be run like a video game, where students have an almost unlimited number of attempts to demonstrate their competenc...
By Minjoon Kouh
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Program Evaluation in Formal and Informal STEM Learning Environments
Evaluation Insights is a new column about program evaluation that will help readers build their capacity as program evaluators....
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This article presents a framework to design lesson plans for elementary science teachers using insights from a summer-long research experience for tea...
By Linda Rost, Rebecca Hite, Gina Childers
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Using Scenarios to Assess Student Learning
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) define science literacy as having the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes an...
By Maha Kareem, Amy Lannin, William Romine, Nancy Singer, Marsha Tyson, Katie Kline, Michelle Kendrick, Sam Otten, Sarah Apple
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We are now a decade past the release of the NGSS —an event that has shaped the way we teach science. The NGSS, with its three-dimensional approach e...
By Patricia McGinnis
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This article describes a cycle of teacher collaborative inquiry called the Student Experience Improvement Cycle (SEIC). The SEIC is a novel form of as...
By William Penuel, Ali Raza, Yamileth Salinas Del Val, Rosa Salinas-Estevez, Emily Williamson, Jennifer Smith, Quincy Gill
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Standards-based grading (SBG) is an alternative approach to grading that uses standards, such as the NGSS, to communicate what students have learned. ...
By Jesse Wilcox, Matt Townsley
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Designing Performance-Based Assessments that Engage!
Rather than feel stressful for students, an assessment should feel like a celebration of learning. Performance-based assessments allow students to dem...
By Katie Coppens
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Equitable instructor assessment changes amid COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak mandated a rapid transition to online classes with little warning. Previous literature studying the effect of this...
By Todd Lamb, Emily Driessen, Abby Beatty, Rachel Youngblood, Abby Esco, Sehoya Cotner, Catherine Creech, Abby Drake, Sheritta Fagbodun, Kristen Hobbs, Kelly Lane, Erin Larson, Sophie McCoy, Seth Thompson, Cissy Ballen
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Student Self-Assessment of Exam Preparation in 100 and 200-Level Chemistry Courses
Student self-assessment surveys were utilized to look at student study habits in several areas. Both self-reported study time and study methods were ...
By Andrew Karatjas
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Student advice for success in high structure science and engineering courses
High structure courses ask students to be active participants in the learning process with pre-class content acquisition and assessment, in-class acti...
By Arik Ringsby, Justin Shaffer
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Pedagogical approaches for supporting students’ argumentative writing in science laboratories have not been fully established. This paper examines t...
By Ruomei Gao, Judith Weinstein-Lloyd, Jody Cardinal
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Tab-meta key: a model for exam review
Traditional exam reviews are passive and face many challenges to prepare students for exams. In this study, we proposed the “Tab-meta keyâ€...
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