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  • Symbols in Physics

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    Symbols are a cornerstone of the written language of physics and mathematics but inconsistencies in their use pose a challenge to students. This article reports on interviews held with first-year undergraduate physics…

  • Boiling Time and Temperature

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the boiling point of a pure substance. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that the boiling point of a pure substance…

  • Collaboration Through Critical Service Learning—In Search of Earth’s Secrets

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  • Will It Form a New Substance?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine whether a new substance with a different chemical makeup is formed when…

  • Community Lead-Ers

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  • Atoms and matter

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  • Designing With Math and Science

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how science and math are both used in engineering. The probe is designed to get students to think about the various ways science and math are…

  • The Early Years: Exploring Magnetism

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  • Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills

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    Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using…

  • Cornhole Predicts the Perfect Pitch

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  • Touch, Talk, Text

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  • The Power of Practice

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    Critical thinking skills are sought after in the workforce and are often included in course, departmental, and programmatic learning objectives.  However, in the curriculum of many courses we tend to focus on…

  • Can It Reflect Light?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about reflection. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that all objects we can see reflect some light.

  • Is It a Rock? (Version 1)

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that rock is not a term for size and that rocks can come in many sizes and…

  • Engineering Habits of Mind

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