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Local Ecosystem Observation Cycle: Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers Engagement in Sensemaking

Equitable sensemaking enables students to draw on personal resources to investigate and explain phenomena and problems within their communities. Altho...

By Jessica Stephenson Reaves and Anna Arias

Postsecondary Environmental Science Inquiry Preservice Science Education Sensemaking

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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

Postsecondary Assessment Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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A Process for Scaling an Independent Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience: Lessons Learned from Expansion of the Tigriopus CURE to Diverse Institutions

Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) increase student engagement in scientific practices and allow students to generate novel findi...

By Ginger R. Fisher, Kevin W. Floyd, and Jeffrey T. Olimpo

Postsecondary Biology Preservice Science Education STEM

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Becoming Scientifically Literate: Developing Epistemic Practices through Reading Scientific Papers

To help students confront pseudoscientific claims and misinformation in their everyday lives, it is important to develop the epistemic practices of sc...

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High School Instructional Materials Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Teaching for Tomorrow: Scientific Literacy in the Classroom

This article describes the integrated Coding, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSTEM) full-year course that aligns mathematical skil...

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Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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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 key”...

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Assessment Biology Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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SoTL Clusters: Faculty-focused Needs-Based Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support

To further teaching and learning, there has been a push to engage faculty to pursue research on teaching. With the recognition that science research o...

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Leadership New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Embedding Study Skills in STEM Courses to Increase Retention and Success: A Quantitative Study

This study was conducted to determine if embedding effective study skills within a course would result in an increased use of these skills and, theref...

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Assessment Preservice Science Education STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Combining Different Inoculation Types to Increase Student Engagement and Build Resilience Against Science Misinformation

Inoculation theory, which applies the biological concept of vaccination to misinformation, provides a range of ways to effectively build resilience ag...

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Biology Curriculum Literacy Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies

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Comparison of Knowledge Gained in a Face-to-Face versus an Online College-Level Nutrition Course

Although evidence exists that online education can result in comparable outcomes as the equivalent face-to-face (F2F) version, there is still a dearth...

Distance Learning Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies