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  • Essential Ingredients for a Scientific Consensus: Climate Change Edition

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  • Cookie Jar Alarms

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    This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.

  • Are They Talking About Climate or Weather?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about climate. The probe is designed to find out whether students distinguish between weather and climate.

  • Equal and Opposite

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically designed to reveal whether students can identify third law force pairs as…

  • Globalize Your Classroom

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    Employing global collaboration to develop student communication skills using the water cycle

  • Turning Tests Into Tasks

    Journal Article |

    Learn how to build a summative performance assessment from a standardized test question.

  • Is It a Theory?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the nature of science. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish scientific theories from the common use of the word theory and if…

  • Addressing Student Diversity and Equity

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  • Rotting Apple

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…

  • Newton's Second Law

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  • Who Engineers?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about engineers. The probe is designed to reveal how students think about who is an engineer and the kind of work engineers do.

  • Plants in the Dark and Light

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that plants use their stored food to grow in the absence of light.

  • From the Field: Events and Opportunities, April 6, 2021

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