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  • Hacking and Tracking Healthy Living

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  • Habitat Change

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think individuals intentionally change their physical characteristics or behaviors in…

  • Habitat Change

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think individuals intentionally change their physical characteristics or behaviors in…

  • Wet Jeans

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the water cycle. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that water goes into the air around us after it evaporates.

  • The Ecology of Opuntia Fragilis (Nuttall) Haworth

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  • Floating High and Low

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density and buoyancy. The probe is designed to find out how students think an object can be changed to make it float differently.

  • Objects in the Sky

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about when objects can be seen in the sky. The probe is designed to reveal whether students consider light and distance in determining what they can see…

  • Illuminating the Universe

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  • NASA’s Universe of Learning

    Journal Article |

  • Online Engagement in an Undergraduate Cell Biology Course

    Journal Article |

    Online engagement, or the use of online supplementary instruction and assessment, in high-structure courses is gaining popularity as a useful tool to facilitate instruction, assignments, and examinations. High-structure…

  • For Your Eyes Only

    Journal Article |

  • Reimagining the 5 Practices for Effective and Equitable Discourse

    Journal Article |

  • Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

    Journal Article |

    The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors.

  • Biological Evolution

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about biological evolution. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish the theory of biological evolution from ideas about the origin of…

  • Darkness at Night

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the day/night cycle. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that Earth’s rotation explains why it is dark at night and light…

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