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This article examines teacher justifications and student perceptions about active learning.
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A look at the influence of graduate teaching assistants' teaching behaviors on student achievement in a research-based undergraduate science course.
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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement
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The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met.
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This article focuses on the use of, and perceptions about, PowerPoint in undergraduate introductory biology classes to understand how PowerPoint composition can best promote student learning.
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Editor's Corner: Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation
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In an age where facts must compete with “alternative facts,” it is more important than ever for our students to learn and practice the skills of scientific argumentation. Taken from the Latin arguer—to make bright or…
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Argumentation is a key scientific practice and a central social and cultural process contributing to the generation, evaluation, and application of new scientific knowledge. As scientists develop arguments and construct…
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Using Scientific Argumentation to Understand Human Impact on the Earth
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Using High-Adventure Science to help students develop critical thinking and scientific argumentation skills
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Invention activities are creative, engaging, and relevant ways to integrate engineering design into science class. High school students are capable of creating working prototypes of real, patentable inventions when they…
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Three models of formative assessment for addressing NGSS domains
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Using proxy data to make claims about climate change
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Focus on Physics: Quickly Teaching Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration—Part 1
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Motion is best learned by keeping it simple—by neglecting the effects of air resistance, as well as the effects of buoyancy, spin, and the shape of moving objects.
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Right to the Source: Learning to Think
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Jacob Abbott's 1856 book "Learning to Think" and why it still resonates today
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Career of the Month: An interview with paleontologist Emily Lindsey
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Paleontologists study past life on Earth, usually focusing on what happened before the Holocene Epoch (about 12,000 years ago.)
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Cougars and Bears and Wolves, Oh Elk!
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Examine how the reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone affected the ecosystem of the park.
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Explore how human activity impacts our water supply.
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