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Co-Constructing Classroom Agreements with Students
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Science is social! Norms can support a classroom community in which students and teachers actively try to make sense of the natural and built worlds.
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Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning
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STEM Lab Safety Zones for Hazardous Areas
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The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Module 1: Introduction to Disciplinary Core Ideas
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In this module you will use A Framework for K-12 Science Education as a resource for developing an understanding of Dimension 3 - Disciplinary Core Ideas. An immersion in a high-quality science lesson pulls disciplinary…
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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…
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The Feeding Minds and Families Afterschool STEM Program
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Features of an Effective Future-Faculty Teaching-Development Program
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Many institutions are preparing graduate students and postdoctorals (future faculty) for effective teaching in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Interestingly, little is known…
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Improving the Quality of Engineering Design Challenges
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Coffee comes to the science lab
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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…
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An Exam Wrapper Intervention in Organic Chemistry I
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This article describes a quasi-experimental study conducted in two Organic Chemistry I classrooms at a diverse, urban, public university. The treatment group received an exam wrapper intervention, a series of four…
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Addressing Potential Laboratory Instructional Site Legal Safety Issues
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Measuring Computational Thinking Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Elementary Teachers
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With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), assessing K–12 science teachers’ self-efficacy in Computational Thinking (CT) is an important research gap to study. Bandura defines self-efficacy as…
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