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Journal Article
Project-based learning (PBL) research is shown to improve students’ higher-order thinking skills. In this article, we describe an adaptation of the PBL model that is suitable for colleges with limited science, technology, engineering, and mathemati...
By Ilirian Dhimitruka and Geetha Surendran
Journal Article
Exploring the Role of Student Seating Preference and Performance in a Large Introductory STEM Course
Most introductory courses are held in large lecture halls, with students typically sitting in either the front, middle, or back of the classroom. In a mixed-methods study of student attendance, performance, and seat choice, we found that students who...
By Chloe Wasendorf, Audrey McCombs, and Nancy Boury
Journal Article
Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools
During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this practice. Yet instructors may be...
By Cody Goolsby-Cole, Sarah M. Bass, Liz Stanwyck, Sarah Leupen, Tara S. Carpenter, and Linda C. Hodges
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By Laura Robertson, Alissa Lange, Jamie Price, Andrea Lowery, Holly McAvoy Scott, Qiuju Tian, and Ryan Nivens
Journal Article
Toward Equity for Multilingual Learners
By Emily Reigh, Emily Adah Miller, Maria Chiara Simani, and Alice Severson
Journal Article
Integrating Critical Pedagogy of Place
By Alayla Ende, Alexandra Schindel, Jennifer Tripp, Christine Wang, and Tanya Christ
NSTA Press Book
Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence, K-5
Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and instructional sequences that lead to...
By Patrick Brown, Page Keeley
Journal Article
Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19
Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand the benefits of improving TAs�...
By Cody Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer