Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

Professional Learning Unit | September 2024

This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…

Earthworm Distribution in the Schoolyard Ecosystem

Journal Article | June 2020

“Yours Needs To Be More Like Mine!” What Does Competition Look Like in Informal Engineering Design Activities?

Journal Article | October 2023

Improving Retention and Graduation of Female Engineering and Polytechnic Students With First-Year Interventions

Journal Article | May 2023

Prior research in student retention emphasizes that building students’ connections with the institution and their peers is key. Students from underrepresented populations often lack these connections, making them more…

Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering

Journal Article | July 2020

We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were interested in how the ELC would support teachers’ science, mathematics, and…

Ice Water

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature in the context of phases of matter. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that the temperature of a substance does…

Altered Reality

Journal Article | August 2020

Is It an Engineering Problem?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how to approach a problem. The probe is designed to gain insight into how students think about an engineering design process (EDP) and the kinds of…

What Is a Hypothesis?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

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.

Comparison of Student Success Between High-Clicker and Low-Clicker Frequency in a Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Course

Journal Article | October 2020

Active-learning approaches have recently been broadly promoted on many campuses, but research is limited on how varying levels of interaction impact student success. The aim of this study was to compare student success…

Picture This!

Journal Article | November 2021

Who Does Science?

Journal Article | August 2020

Sailing into Engineering

Journal Article | August 2020

Three-Dimensional Classroom Assessment Tasks

Journal Article | February 2019

Practical advice from veteran teachers

Accessible Physics for All

Journal Article | August 2020