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  • The Heart of the Matter

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  • From the Field: Events and Opportunities, October 5, 2021

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  • From the Field: Events and Opportunities, November 2, 2021

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  • Making It Better

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about different ways to optimize a design that has been successful in the past, but that still needs improvement. The probe is designed to see if…

  • Operationalizing the Duty of Care Through Rubrics

    Journal Article |

    Laboratory experiments are a key aspect of science education. However, they do have risks, and accidents do happen. Science educators have a duty of care, which includes duty of instruction. One tool that can be…

  • Does It Have to Touch?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that forces can act both in direct contact with an object and at a…

  • Pizza Problem

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about researching a problem. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students are aware of the need to learn as much as possible about how…

  • Teaching the Science of Honeybees

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  • Is It a Rock? (Version 1)

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that rock is not a term for size and that rocks can come in many sizes and…

  • Technology, System, or Both?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine if students are able to envision how a system is made up of parts and can do something…

  • Addressing Teacher Shortages, Back to School, and Future of the Department of Education

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  • Habitat Change

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think individuals intentionally change their physical characteristics or behaviors in…

  • Mountaintop Fossil

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about mountain formation. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that some mountains are formed from the uplift of Earth’s crust…

  • From the Field: Events and Opportunities, August 10, 2021

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  • Surface-X

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