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Examinations That Support Collaborative Learning: The Students' Perspective
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The authors used surveys and classroom observations to examine student reactions to two-stage exams, where students first do the exam individually and then redo it collaboratively.
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Art Instruction in the Botany Lab: A Collaborative Approach
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Good observations are often fundamental to good science, and drawing has long been recognized as a tool to develop students’ observation skills. Yet when drawing in illustrated journals was introduced into botany…
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A Collaborative Approach to Incorporating Statistics in the Physiology Classroom
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Both the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommend appropriately incorporating mathematics into other disciplines (NRC 1996; NRC 2003; NCTM 2000).…
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Increasing STEM Outcomes Through Quality Collaborations
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Discover how early childhood faculty at the University of Memphis launched a new collaborative partnership with the Children’s Museum of Memphis to develop and implement early STEM learning activities during a teaching…
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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Global Collaborators
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards, which makes it possible for students to become global…
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Collaborative Concept Maps: A Voice for All Science Learners
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Use this valuable instructional tool to differentiate instruction for all students.
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Collaboration + Good Coffee = Connected Science Learning Success
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A collaboration between two North Carolina state agencies allows in-school and out-of-school educators to share knowledge, engage students in in-school and out-of-school opportunities, and develop learning communities…
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Learning Simple Machines Through Cross-Age Collaborations
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In this project, introductory college physics students (noneducation majors) were asked to teach simple machines to a class of second graders. This nontraditional activity proved to be a successful way to encourage…