Research and Teaching: Toward Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Using Osmotic Pressure as an Example for Analyzing Textbook Explanations

by: Shannon Sung, Ji Shen, Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall, Craig Wiegert, Wan-I Li, Scott Brown, and Tom Robertson

Despite the increasing interests and practices in interdisciplinary science education, little research has been documented to develop effective assessments targeting students' interdisciplinary learning. In response to this gap, a team of scientists and educators developed an interdisciplinary assessment instrument targeting osmosis, which was chosen because it involves concepts from multiple disciplines and was identified as one of the most important topics by college instructors from different disciplines.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2015Stock # jcst15_044_04_76Volume 044Issue 04

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