All Preservice Science Education resources
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An Adapted Journal Club Approach
Students must be able to evaluate primary literature, yet few options exist within the undergraduate curriculum to develop the necessary skills. In th...
By Melissa Eslinger, Sydney Alekseyev, and Helen Schroeder
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Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science
To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning...
By Ezgi Yesilyurt
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In this study, we analyzed the literature on teaching or learning on a topic in Earth science, environmental science, or climate change between 1995 a...
By Gillian M. Puttick, Brian Drayton, and Christina Silva
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This study investigated the stability and persistence of prospective elementary teachers’ conceptual understanding of average speed. A questionnaire...
By Karthigeyan Subramaniam, Christopher S. Long, Pamela Esprivalo Harrell, and Nazia Khan
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The Student Participation Observation Tool (SPOT) is a web-based classroom observation protocol developed for higher education STEM courses and based ...
By Cara H. Theisen, Cassandra A. Paul, and Katrina Roseler
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Instruction that increases acceptance of evolution is essential to effective biology instruction, but instruction about evolution is not consistently ...
By Clinton Thomas Laidlaw, Seth M. Bybee, Steven Shumway, Thomas Heath Ogden, Steven Peck, and Jamie L. Jensen
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As change agents at our university, we sought to facilitate a transition within our STEM college toward more extensive use of evidence-based instructi...
By Richard E. West, Jamie L. Jensen, Michael Johnson, Jennifer Nielson, Rebecca Sansom, and Geoffrey Wright
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Examining Perspectives of Teaching Among Biology Teaching Assistants
Recent reform efforts in postsecondary science teaching have called for shifts in instructional methods to include more evidence-based instructional p...
By Joshua W. Reid and Emily G. Weigel
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Integrated Concentration in Science
The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) 4-year program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was designed to promote interdisciplinary ST...
By Stephanie Purington and Martina Nieswandt
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E–6 Preservice Teachers and Elementary Science Teaching
The study assessed the science teaching confidence of preservice teachers in teaching elementary science by addressing two research questions: (1) Did...
By Mamta Singh
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This study presents a quasi-experiment to assess differences in student performance and satisfaction between two different delivery modes—online and...
By Hongyan Geng and Mark McGinley
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STEM Teaching Reform: Incremental Pathways
For almost 1,000 years, lecture has been the predominant form of teaching. There has been increasing pressure to abandon lecturing and instead use mor...
By Yunteng He