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Listserv Roundup: Technology tools for paperless formative assessment
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month’s column focuses on technology tools that NSTA e-mail listserv members use for formative…
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Science for All: Encouraging Academic Talk
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Strategies for engaging all learners in classroom conversations.
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Teacher to Teacher: The Steps of a Conceptual Storyline
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. This month describes the steps involved in writing a conceptual storyline, a sequence of lessons designed to clarify relationships between concepts.
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Scope on the Skies: Timely Motions of the Earth and Moon
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. During the first few days of January, the Earth reaches perihelion, the closest it will come to the Sun each year. The Earth’s perihelion does not occur on the same…
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Data Modeling for Preservice Teachers and Everyone Else
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Although data modeling, the employment of statistical reasoning for the purpose of investigating questions about the world, is central to both mathematics and science, it is rarely emphasized in K–16 instruction. This…
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Providing Opportunities for Argumentation in Science Exam Settings
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This article explores undergraduates’ efforts to engage in scientific argumentation during exam settings.
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Integration, Authenticity, and Relevancy in College Science Through Engineering Design
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An engineering design problem-solving framework was used to create a general chemistry lab activity focused on an important environmental issue—dead zones. Dead zones impact over 400 locations around the world and are a…
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Physics Meets Art in the General Education Core
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This article describes a general education course offering, Physics and the Arts. During the development of this course, physics and arts faculty collaborated closely. Goals of the course are to increase students’…
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Recruitment and retention in the sciences is both difficult and crucial, especially in the community college setting. In this study, the resources used by General Chemistry I students at two different public,…
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Case Study: Skinny Genes? An Interdisciplinary Look at a Complex Behavioral Disorder
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This directed case study uses a progressive disclosure model to expose…
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Research and Teaching: Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Learning
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This study investigated the interaction of disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning in a team-taught, first-year, interdisciplinary sustainability course. We surveyed (pre/post) both STEM (science, technology,…
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In this article, the authors describe their approach to flipping the General Chemistry sequence at two different colleges within the City University of New York, a large, urban public university system. Our results…
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Research and Teaching: Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works
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Improving students’ understanding of how science works requires explicit instruction. Here, the authors test the efficacy of a module based on two previously published activities (the Cube Puzzle and the case study…
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This study describes the development and implementation of an iterative diagnostic and intervention routine designed to elicit and quantitatively describe aspects of student metacognition, affect, and study habits in a…
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Jumping Into Natural Selection
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Thought experiments and firsthand investigations with crickets help students construct explanations of natural selection.
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