All Preservice Science Education resources
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 21, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
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Teaching Preservice Teachers the Water Cycle With a Conceptual Change Model
The purposes of this study were to examine preservice elementary teachers’ conception of the water cycle; determine if participating in a conceptual...
By Patricia Morrell and Adele Schepige
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More than 8 out of every 10 college students are not STEM majors, yet we have little understanding about learning expectations for them. We used the r...
By Austin Heil, Cara Gormally, and Peggy Brickman
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Undergraduate STEM students may be overwhelmed by the complex information they are exposed to during their education. Even so, there are a handful of ...
By Nora Demers
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Student Self-Care in the Sciences
Instructor support is associated with various positive outcomes for students. Self-care (taking care of one’s physical, mental, and emotional health...
By Carly Yadon