Long-Distance Engagement

Reports Article | May 2020

Helping Students Use Crosscutting Concepts to Guide Sensemaking of Anchoring Phenomena

Journal Article | July 2024

Crosscutting concepts (CCCs) are designed to help students make sense of phenomena across multiple scientific disciplines (National Research Council 2012). Since they are applicable to explaining so many different…

A Model for a Data Analysis– and Literature-Intensive Undergraduate Course

Journal Article | May 2022

This article describes the use of literature to broaden students’ skills in content comprehension, data analysis, modeling, and productive scientific discussion. The design builds on existing models to maximize student…

Exploring Barriers to the Use of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices

Journal Article | October 2021

Recent reform documents in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields recommend the use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) in the classroom. National surveys in the…

Picture This!

Journal Article | November 2021

Integrated Outdoor and Classroom Science Experiences to Support Civic Engagement Among Middle and High School Students

Journal Article | July 2023

Up To the Moon!

Journal Article | December 2020

Engineering Essential Attributes of Cooperative Learning and Quality Discourse in a Large Enrollment Course by Leveraging Clicker Devices

Journal Article | April 2020

This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and discourse patterns within student teams during class periods. Clicker…

A Yellow-Bellied Lawyer?

Case Study | November 2016

Just Lose It!

Case Study | November 2019

National Science Teaching Association Celebrates Its 2025 Teacher Awards Honorees

Press Release | March 2025

Numbers in Nature, Math on the Mountain

Journal Article | April 2018

Data are the workhorses of the scientific endeavor and their use is rapidly evolving (Haendel, Vasilevsky, and Wirz 2012). Ask almost any scientist about their work, and the conversation will involve the data they…

Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students

Journal Article | January 2023

This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…

STREAMing Engineering

Journal Article | September 2019

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers.