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A formal pedagogical push emerged and later blossomed in designing integrated curriculum between STEM and non-STEM areas in secondary and higher educa...
By Marcus Aldredge, Sunghee Lee, and Josh Klein
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Female students, students of color, first-generation students, and low-income students face considerable barriers in access to STEM education, leading...
By Sami Kahn, Janet Vertesi, Sigrid Adriaenssens, Julia Byeon, Mona Fixdal, Kelly Godfrey, Jérémie Lumbroso, and Kasey Wagoner
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Operationalizing the Duty of Care Through Rubrics
Laboratory experiments are a key aspect of science education. However, they do have risks, and accidents do happen. Science educators have a duty of c...
By Emily Faulconer
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An Adapted Journal Club Approach
Students must be able to evaluate primary literature, yet few options exist within the undergraduate curriculum to develop the necessary skills. In th...
By Melissa Eslinger, Sydney Alekseyev, and Helen Schroeder
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Developing a Classroom Assessment Rubric
The development and implementation of varied assessment practices is a major focus in higher education. Assessment benefits both students and teachers...
By Chandrani Mishra, Loran Carleton Parker, and Kari L. Clase
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This article explores results from a 3-year model of laboratory instruction, Project Synapse, that synthesized biology, chemistry, and communication c...
By Margery Gardner, Neal Abrams, Gregory McGee, and Elizabeth Hogan
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A Model for a Data Analysis– and Literature-Intensive Undergraduate Course
This article describes the use of literature to broaden students’ skills in content comprehension, data analysis, modeling, and productive scientifi...
By Karen Resendes
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This study is an exploratory comparison of 69 Hispanic students enrolled in first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) who attended either a Hispanic-S...
By Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Anton Dubrovskiy, Deborah Rush Walker, Blain Mamiya, G. Robert Shelton, Cynthia B. Powell, Susan Broadway, Rebecca Weber, and Diana Mason
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Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science
To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning...
By Ezgi Yesilyurt
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Self-regulated learning (SRL) is the metacognitive aspect of learning that goes beyond learning content and skills. With SRL, students are aware of th...
By Stephanie Toro
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Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy
This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course....
By Mika Munakata, Ashwin Vaidya, and Dirk Vanderklein
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Social Justice Service-Learning at an HBCU
Integrating social issues into biology courses may be of particular interest for educators seeking to create inclusive science environments that suppo...
By Nastassia N. Jones and Francesca M. Mellieon-Williams
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Why Do People Say, “I Believe in Science”?
Many people in the general public say, “I believe in science.” Why don’t they say, “I believe in reading” or similar statements about other ...
By Kristy M. Palmer
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In this study, we analyzed the literature on teaching or learning on a topic in Earth science, environmental science, or climate change between 1995 a...
By Gillian M. Puttick, Brian Drayton, and Christina Silva
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This study investigated the stability and persistence of prospective elementary teachers’ conceptual understanding of average speed. A questionnaire...
By Karthigeyan Subramaniam, Christopher S. Long, Pamela Esprivalo Harrell, and Nazia Khan