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Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering
We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were inter...
By Allison Antink-Meyer and Anna Arias
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Scenarios, Stakeholders, Autonomy, and Choice
A role-play activity is presented that was designed for a STEM education learning experience to enrich science literacy, collaboration, and critical...
By David Green and Mary Kay Cassani
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Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning
Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motiv...
By Emily Fisher and Nan Crystal Arens
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Designing Environmental Science Curriculum With PhotoVoice to Engage Nonscience Majors
By Carolyn Waters and Kristin Cook
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A Framework for Effective Dissemination of Innovative STEM Curricula
By S. Elizabeth Alter and Leo Gafney
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Community College Students Rise to the Challenge
High-structure course designs have reduced achievement gaps for low-income and underrepresented minority students at research universities. But do c...
By Scott Freeman, Pamela Pape-Lindstrom, Anne Casper, and Sarah Eddy
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Course-Based Research in the First Semester of College
Undergraduate students are increasingly aware of complex global challenges and have a strong desire to take action and create change. Course-based u...
By Christina Cianfrani and Sarah Hews
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Features of an Effective Future-Faculty Teaching-Development Program
Many institutions are preparing graduate students and postdoctorals (future faculty) for effective teaching in undergraduate science, technology, en...
By Jacinta Mutambuki, Regina Frey, and Denise Leonard
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A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. ...
By Ozden Sengul and Renee Schwartz
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Design and Impact of an Undergraduate Civic Science Course
An interdisciplinary group of faculty members from Tufts University developed an undergraduate civic science course designed to help students better...
By Jonathan Garlick, Inger Bergom, and Annie Soisson
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Constructive Error Climate: A Classroom Assessment Technique in Science Classes
Although making errors in the learning process is common, it is usually perceived by students as something negative and a potential threat to self-e...
By Yunteng He
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Outcomes for Peer-Based Mentors in a University-Wide STEM Persistence Program: A Three-Year Analysis
While the majority of STEM persistence has focused on outcomes for first-year students, there has been little investigation into the outcomes for pe...
By Dean T. Spaulding, Jelane A. Kennedy, Amanda Rozsavolgyi, and Wilfredo Colón
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In this article, the authors describe how classroom observations were used to characterize differences in instructional practices among undergraduat...
By Katherine McCance, Timothy Weston, and Emily Niemeyer
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This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and di...
By Christopher Bauer