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Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need...
By Page Keeley
Blog Post
Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning
By Matthew Bobrowsky
NSTA Press Book
Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9–12: Explore-Before-Explain in Physical Science
Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9–12 is the one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine your approach to high school physical scienc...
By Patrick Brown
Journal Article
This study examines what prior knowledge and misconceptions about evolutionary theory students bring with them into an introductory biological anthrop...
By Kathryn King
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2, Second Edition: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes
“Leave no alternative science idea unchallenged!” could be the slogan of this second edition of Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2. Lik...
By Page Keeley
Journal Article
In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active-learning strategies to help students imp...
By Colin S. Wallace, Edward E. Prather, John A. Milsom, Ken Johns, and Srin Manne
Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to investigate knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers toward wind energy education. The participants for this st...
By Mamta Singh
Journal Article
Formative assessment has been shown to be a critical activity for promoting meaningful understanding in the classroom. Systematic engagement in format...
By Young Ae Kim, Jonathan Cox, Katelyn M. Southard, Lisa Elfring, Paul Blowers and Vicente Talanquer
Blog Post
Challenges for Science Teachers in Using Assessment Effectively With Their Students
By Jim McDonald
Journal Article
Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom
In a linguistically diverse fourth-grade classroom, students carry out an investigation to answer the lesson question: How are we able to see objects?...
By Okhee Lee and Rita Januszyk