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Examinations That Support Collaborative Learning: The Students' Perspective
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The authors used surveys and classroom observations to examine student reactions to two-stage exams, where students first do the exam individually and then redo it collaboratively.
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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones
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This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information.
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The Prepared Practitioner: Learning Science Beyond the Classroom
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Have you ever learned science outside of school, free of fact-based standards and tests? Were you at a museum, national park, or maybe in front of a TV? Science educators refer to this kind of learning as free-choice…
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Service Learning: A Way to Connect Science to the Community
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How often have we tried to connect middle school science to students' lives only to lack an idea or a vehicle for making the connection? Service learning can provide that kind of link for students. It is a teaching and…
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Editor's Note: 'Tis the Season for Outdoor Learning
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Science Sampler: Students learn best by teaching
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Traditionally, science fair projects allow students to share their personal investigations about nature. In a science fair presentation, a student typically lectures, pointing out observations, data, analysis, and…
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Take a Fresh Look at Connected Science Learning
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Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the latest issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM Learning Through Afterschool Experiences, and introduces the journal’s incoming Field Editor, Beth Murphy. …
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Informal Science Learning in Online Affinity Spaces
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Affinity spaces are online forums in which participants, including informal science education professionals, share with one another teaching and learning resources on a given topic. Affinity spaces are online…
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