The SDM Finger

Journal Article | October 2019

Exploring makerspaces, engineering, and more

Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools

Journal Article | March 2023

During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this…

STEM-ify Me: It’s Elementary! Designing Butterfly Wings

Journal Article | June 2018

Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

Journal Article | December 2020

National science education documents emphasize new learning outcomes of elementary students; therefore, the preparation of elementary teachers should be revised to meet these challenges. This article describes how…

Is It a System?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about systems. The probe is designed to find out whether students can recognize that things with parts that interact or influence each other are systems.

What’s in the Bubbles?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about particles during a phase change. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that the bubbles formed when water boils are the result of…

A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

Journal Article | August 2020