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Resource | Communities of Practice
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Common Misconceptions about Heat and Insulation
The concepts of energy and heat are challenging for elementary students. Because young students are not ready to delve into kinetic theory and molecular motion, much of the explanation of heat and energy transfer is inaccessible to them. In addition, the use of the word "energy" in popular culture may interfere with the development of scientific understanding. Nevertheless, elementary students…
The concepts of energy and heat are challenging for elementary students. Because young students are not ready to delve into kinetic theory and molecular motion, much of the explanation of heat and energy transfer is inaccessible to them. In addition, the use of the word "energy" in popular culture may interfere with the development of scientific understanding. Nevertheless, elementary students…
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Chemistry Facets 2010 DR-K12 PI Poster
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Change Thinking for Global Science: Fostering and Evaluating Inquiry Thinking About the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Project Summary During the lifetimes of our current middle and high school students, it is likely that our planet will undergo more anthropogenic change than it has during all of human history to date. The project is utilizing a learning progression approach for the systematic design of coordinated curriculum, tool, and assessment products focused on climate change biology. This work will provide…
Project Summary During the lifetimes of our current middle and high school students, it is likely that our planet will undergo more anthropogenic change than it has during all of human history to date. The project is utilizing a learning progression approach for the systematic design of coordinated curriculum, tool, and assessment products focused on climate change biology. This work will provide…
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | CADRE Web Overview
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | CADRE Project Collection Spotlight Form
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | CADRE Description
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Building and Validating a Learning Trajectory for Children's Measurement (Barrett, Sarama, Clements)
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Blogs: Enhancing links in a professional learning community of science and mathematics teachers
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Bioinformatics: Learning by Doing
Posted: Thursday, October 11
Resource | Best Practices for Metrics Collection and Analysis
This report provides recommendations and best practices suggestions for the use of metricsin digital library project evaluation, formulated by the National Science Digital Library(NSDL) Metrics Working Group. In this document, we provide an overview of which metrics are useful for assessing digitallibrary activities, make recommendations on how to collect those metrics, and provide examples of…
This report provides recommendations and best practices suggestions for the use of metricsin digital library project evaluation, formulated by the National Science Digital Library(NSDL) Metrics Working Group. In this document, we provide an overview of which metrics are useful for assessing digitallibrary activities, make recommendations on how to collect those metrics, and provide examples of…
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Resource | Assembling Our Knowledge of Teacher Learning: The State of Our Understanding and Practices (Wilson)
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Resource | Appraising lexical bundles in mathematics classroom discourse: Obligation and choice
Working from a large corpus of transcripts from secondary mathematics classrooms, we identify patterns of speech that encode interpersonal positioning. We extend our analysis from a previous article (Herbel-Eisenmann, Wagner & Cortes, Educ Stud Math, 2010, in press), in which we introduced a concept from corpus linguistics—a “lexical bundle,” which has been defined as a group of three or more…
Working from a large corpus of transcripts from secondary mathematics classrooms, we identify patterns of speech that encode interpersonal positioning. We extend our analysis from a previous article (Herbel-Eisenmann, Wagner & Cortes, Educ Stud Math, 2010, in press), in which we introduced a concept from corpus linguistics—a “lexical bundle,” which has been defined as a group of three or more…
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Resource | Analyzing Educational Policies as Designs for Supporting Learning
Submitted to The Journal of the Learning Sciences In this article, we describe and illustrate an analytical perspective in which educational policies are viewed as designs for supporting learning. This learning design perspective is useful when designing policies, when adapting policies to particular school and district settings during implementation, and when revising policies after…
Submitted to The Journal of the Learning Sciences In this article, we describe and illustrate an analytical perspective in which educational policies are viewed as designs for supporting learning. This learning design perspective is useful when designing policies, when adapting policies to particular school and district settings during implementation, and when revising policies after…
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Resource | Analyzing Educational Policies as Designs for Supporting Learning
Submitted to The Journal of the Learning Sciences In this article, we describe and illustrate an analytical perspective in which educational policies are viewed as designs for supporting learning. This learning design perspective is useful when designing policies, when adapting policies to particular school and district settings during implementation, and when revising policies after…
Submitted to The Journal of the Learning Sciences In this article, we describe and illustrate an analytical perspective in which educational policies are viewed as designs for supporting learning. This learning design perspective is useful when designing policies, when adapting policies to particular school and district settings during implementation, and when revising policies after…
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Posted: Wednesday, October 10
Resource | Acquisition of mathematical language: Suggestions and activities for English language learners
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Resource | A Symmetry POGIL Activity for Inorganic Chemistry
The goal of this project was to create an inquiry activity to teach symmetry elements and symmetry operations in an inorganic chemistry course. Many students experience difficulty when building and mentally manipulating three-dimensional mental models from two-dimensional images, causing difficulty when learning symmetry. Process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) was used to structure the…
The goal of this project was to create an inquiry activity to teach symmetry elements and symmetry operations in an inorganic chemistry course. Many students experience difficulty when building and mentally manipulating three-dimensional mental models from two-dimensional images, causing difficulty when learning symmetry. Process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) was used to structure the…
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Resource | A Framework and Suite of Adaptable Instruments for Examining Fidelity of Implementation (Century)
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Resource | A Design Pattern for Observational Investigation Assessment Tasks (Large Scale Assessment Technical Report 2)
The significance of inquiry skills is widely acknowledged in science practice across many areas. Unlike experimentation, another form of inquiry skill, observational investigation has been much ignored in science education and thus science assessment. Drawing on reserach development in assessment design, this report provides a design pattern to help assessment designers create tasks assessing…
The significance of inquiry skills is widely acknowledged in science practice across many areas. Unlike experimentation, another form of inquiry skill, observational investigation has been much ignored in science education and thus science assessment. Drawing on reserach development in assessment design, this report provides a design pattern to help assessment designers create tasks assessing…
Posted: Tuesday, October 09
Resource | A Design Pattern for Experimental Investigation (Large-Scale Assessment Technical Report 8)
The significance of inquiry skills is widely acknowledged in science practice across many areas. Carrying out experimental investigations is an indispensable element of scientific inquiry and, therefore, an important capability to assess. Drawing on research development in assessment design, this report provides a design pattern to help assessment designers create tasks assessing students'…
The significance of inquiry skills is widely acknowledged in science practice across many areas. Carrying out experimental investigations is an indispensable element of scientific inquiry and, therefore, an important capability to assess. Drawing on research development in assessment design, this report provides a design pattern to help assessment designers create tasks assessing students'…
Posted: Monday, October 08