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  • Is It Affordable?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about trade-offs. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that trade-offs involve sacrificing one or more things in favor of another…

  • Surveying the Safety Culture of Academic Laboratories

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    The university traditionally has been the foundation for young adults’ professional development, yet the proclivity toward safety culture has garnered less focus in higher education than in the workforce. A survey of…

  • Doing Science

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about scientific investigations. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that scientists investigate the natural world in a variety of…

  • Baby Mice

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about heredity. The probe is designed to reveal how students think organisms inherit observable traits.

  • Ecologist Todd Elliott

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    Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and…

  • Environmental Health Scientist Casey Bartrem

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    Environmental health scientists study how environmental toxins impact human health, and work to mitigate such risks. They may be employed by government agencies, universities, or private companies, and…

  • What Is a Hypothesis?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about hypotheses. The probe is designed to find out if students understand what a hypothesis is, when it is used, and how it is developed.

  • Halloween Activities: Don’t Be Spooked by the Need to Include Lab Safety

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  • I Will Survive

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  • Where Are the Volcanoes?

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  • An Undergraduate Independent Study Project

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    A lateral flow assay was designed and optimized as an independent study project that aimed to develop an assay for the qualitative detection of troponin assay. Lateral flow assays (the classic example being a pregnancy…

  • (W)holistic Science Pedagogy

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  • Promoting STEM Pathways

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  • Teacher Spotlight: Daniel Delcher

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  • Model, Assess, Repeat!

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