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  • Moonlight

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about light and the Moon. The probe is designed to find out what students think is the source of a full Moon’s light.

  • Who Gets Helped?

    Journal Article |

    Although peer interaction in the college classroom may benefit some students by developing peer networks for future collaborations, prior research has suggested that these relationships most often benefit students from…

  • Rising to the Top

    Case Study |

  • The Case of a Tropical Disease and its Treatment

    Case Study |

  • A Tale of Three Lice

    Case Study |

  • To the Bitter End

    Case Study |

  • Making It Fit

    Case Study |

  • Burning Paper

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter during combustion. The probe is designed to find out if students think the mass changes as paper burns inside a closed…

  • Virtual and Sensory Experiences

    Journal Article |

  • Nails in a Jar

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter during a chemical change (oxidation). The probe is designed to find out if students think the mass changes as rust forms…

  • Warming Water

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about thermal energy. The probe is designed to find out whether students think cold things can have energy.

  • Standing On One Foot

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weight and pressure. The probe is designed to determine whether students think their weight changes when the force exerted per unit area (pressure…

  • Science Throwdown

    Journal Article |

  • A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

    Journal Article |

    First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…

  • Observing a Turn-of-the-Last-Century Classroom Community

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