Are Learning Progressions a Useful Pedagogical Tool for Instructors?

Journal Article | October 2021

Learning progressions (LPs) present a potential tool to guide students toward deeper understanding of core concepts as they move through a curriculum. In addition to providing a theoretical scheme for education…

An Integrated STEM and Computing Curriculum for the Human-Technology Frontier

Journal Article | April 2021

Action Research: Using a 5E Instructional Approach to Improve Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Instruction

Journal Article | April 2020

A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. The instructor explored how to integrate the instructional approach…

The Fun in Fermentation

Case Study | June 2016

Yeast Cryptography

Case Study | September 2018

Which Little Piggy Went to Market?

Case Study | October 2005

Bad Fish, Bad Bird

Case Study | March 2010

Poison Ivy

Case Study | April 2011

Clear Communication

Case Study | October 2012

What Cycles in the Sky Can Students Observe?

Journal Article | December 2020

Investigating Land Ethics

Journal Article | March 2020

Combustion and a Jumping Flame

Journal Article | May 2020

Creating Podcasts as Science Learning

Journal Article | September 2020

Engineering Clean Water

Journal Article | May 2020

Show Your Students How to Be More Persuasive When They Write

Journal Article | July 2020

After a grueling grading campaign, a chemist asked a writing and rhetoric specialist for help improving formal reports in the introductory organic chemistry lab. Together, we realized that the very best student reports…