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  • What’s Inside Our Solar System?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the solar system. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between objects in the solar system and objects outside of the…

  • How Many Fish are Really in the Sea?

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  • Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

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    This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…

  • Assessment of Demographic Biases Associated With the Ground Rules System in a Large Undergraduate Engineering Course

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    Despite more women and underrepresented students entering engineering, there are still gaps in achievement. A potential remedy is to establish equitable team dynamics during groupwork. Groupware systems have been…

  • Archaeology-in-a-Box

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    Applying geology concepts to an investigation into human behavior

  • Sugar Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about dissolving. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens to sugar when it dissolves in water.

  • Solar Eclipse

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about eclipses. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens during a solar eclipse.

  • Cookie Crumbles

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think weight is conserved when a whole object is broken up into small…

  • Ride the Movies

    Journal Article |

    Apply science and engineering practices to design and build an amusement park ride based on a Hollywood film.

  • Comparing Cubes

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about properties of matter. The probe is designed to find out which properties students think will change if the size of an object made from the same…

  • What Is a Hypothesis?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about hypotheses. The probe is designed to find out if students understand what a hypothesis is, when it is used, and how it is developed.

  • Making as a Performance Task

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  • Cultivating Curiosity About Creatures

    Journal Article |

  • Earth’s Mass

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the cycling of matter. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize that once-living matter breaks down and cycles through…

  • Outcomes for Peer-Based Mentors in a University-Wide STEM Persistence Program: A Three-Year Analysis

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    While the majority of STEM persistence has focused on outcomes for first-year students, there has been little investigation into the outcomes for peer mentors. Of the studies conducted, results are promising. Benefits…

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