Two-Year Community: Construction With Scaffolds: Helping Community College Students Build Explanations

by: Steve Bennett and Amelia Wenk Gotwals

Few students enter community college science classrooms having experience with, or being proficient in, using evidence to explain scientific phenomena. Therefore, the authors used a claim-evidence-reasoning framework to scaffold students as they learned to construct evidence-based explanations in an introductory environmental science course at a regional community college.

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ENCdl Science as Inquiry

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 7/1/2017Stock # jcst17_046_06_12Volume 046Issue 06

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