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Professional development aligned with AP Chemistry curriculum: Promoting science practices and facilitating enduring conceptual understanding
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The recent revisions to the advanced placement (AP) chemistry curriculum promote deep conceptual understanding of chemistry content over more rote memorization of facts and algorithmic problem solving.…
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This brief gives an overview—and by no means a comprehensive one—of several NGSS-aligned projects in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development.
This brief gives an…
Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States: Summary of a Workshop
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On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop on Mathematics Teaching and Curriculum. The workshop was organized to…
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Disruptions in Ecosystems is a middle school curriculum unit with supporting teacher materials. The unit includes five chapters, each focused on a specific phenomenon related to ecosystem disruption, including questions…
Integrating a Space for Teacher Interaction into an Educative Curriculum: Design Principles and Teachers' Use of the iPlan Tool
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Authors describe the design principles of iPlan, a web-based tool provides access to educative curriculum materials in an online interactive learning platform, and discuss implications for designing educative and online…
The Impact of Multimedia Educative Curriculum Materials (MECMs) on Teachers' Beliefs about Scientific Argumentation
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Authors discuss how teachers used MECMs and whether that use impacted their beliefs about the practice of scientific argumentation.
Recent reform efforts in science education include a focus on science…
Understanding Science and Language Connections: New Approaches to Assessment with Bilingual Learners
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Authors report on the use of bilingual constructed response science assessments in the context of a research and development partnership with secondary school science teachers.
We report on the use of…
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From 2012–2015, Advanced Placement (AP) science courses underwent a large-scale curricular reform to include more scientific inquiry and reasoning, reduce emphasis on broad content coverage, and focus on depth of…
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We describe an experience within mathematics teacher preparation that engages pre-service teachers of mathematics (PMTs) in Making and design practices that we hypothesized would inform their conceptual, curricular, and…
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A workshop to be presented at the Association of Science Teacher Educators International Conference.
Hapgood, S., Wilson, G., Heuring, J. & Czerniak, C. M. (Accepted for January 2020). 3DLA: Three…
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A poster to be presented at the Association of Science Teacher Educators International Conference.
Hapgood, S., Heuring, J. & Wilson, G., Czerniak, C. (Accepted for January 2020). Early Childhood…
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Paper presented at the European Science Education Research Association.
Czerniak, C. M., Kaderavek, J., Paprzycki, P., Hapgood, S., Mentzer, G., Molitor, S., & Mendenhall, R. (2019). Longitudinal…
Longitudinal Impact of Early Childhood Science Instruction on Middle Grades Literacy and Mathematics
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Paper presented at the Global Conference on Education and Research.
Czerniak, C. M., Paprzycki, P., Hapgood, S., & Kaderavek, J. (2019). Longitudinal Impact of Early Childhood Science Instruction on…
Scientific Inquiry for Young Children: Linking Teacher Professional Development and Family Engagement to Improve Student Achievement
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Paper presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Conference.
Hapgood, S., Paprzycki, P., Czerniak, C.M. (2019). Scientific Inquiry for Young Children: Linking Teacher Professional…
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A free middle school science program that supports teachers in the effective instruction of an NGSS-aligned, EQuIP-reviewed body systems curriculum unit. Includes the complete middle school science curriculum…
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Designed to be integrated with any curriculum, each grade level includes 18-20 one-hour lessons to be conducted throughout the school year. Each LEAP lesson lasts about an hour is designed to fit within a typical daily…
How Science Teachers DiALoG Classrooms: Towards a Practical and Responsive Formative Assessment of Oral Argumentation
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This article presents lessons learned from an ongoing attempt to conceptualize, develop, and refine a way for teachers to gather formative assessment evidence about classroom argumentation as it happens…
Design Research on the Teaching and Learning of Conceptual Understanding in High School Chemistry Though the Use of Dynamic Visualizations of Physical and Chemical Changes
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High School
Science
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Professional Development…
Learning Trajectories as a Complete Early Mathematics Intervention: Achieving Efficacies of Economies at Scale
Poster
Pre-Kindergarten
Mathematics
Broadening Participation
Classroom Practice
Cognitive Science
Curriculum…
Poster
High School
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge…
Poster
Middle School
High School
Mathematics
Assessment
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content…
Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science: Teaching and Learning Variability and Change in Ecosystems (Collaborative Research: Lehrer, Miller, and Peake)
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Middle School
Science
Cognitive Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Professional Development…
Design and Development of Transmedia Narrative-based Curricula to Engage Children in Scientific Thinking and Engineering Design (Collaborative Research: Ellis and McGinnis-Cavanaugh)
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Middle School
Engineering
Science
Assessment
Broadening Participation
Cognitive Science
Curriculum…
Poster
High School
Chemistry
Earth Science
Assessment
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Professional…
Teaching STEM with Robotics: Design, Development, and Testing of a Research-based Professional Development Program for Teachers
Poster
Middle School
Computer Science
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge…
Design and Development of a K-12 STEM Observation Protocol (Collaborative Research: Dare, Ring-Whalen, and Roehrig)
Poster
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology…
Poster
Teachers
Science
Technology
Assessment
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Pedagogical Content…
Developing Teachers' Epistemic Cognition and Teaching Practices for Supporting Students' Epistemic Practices with Scientific Systems
Poster
High School
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Educational Technology…
Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning: Rebuilding and Researching an Online Middle School Curriculum
Poster
Middle School
Science
Assessment
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Professional Development…
Poster
Middle School
High School
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge…
Mobilizing Teachers to Increase Capacity and Broaden Women's Participation in Physics (Collaborative Research: Hazari)
Poster
High School
Science
Broadening Participation
Curriculum
Professional Development
STEP UP is mobilizing and…
Poster
Elementary School
Engineering
Science
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Pedagogical Content Knowledge…
Poster
Elementary School
Science
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Professional Development
To support equitable access…
Poster
High School
Science
Broadening Participation
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Professional Development…
Poster
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Science
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Professional Development…
Streams of Data: Nurturing Data Literacy in Young Science Learners (Collaborative Research: Kochevar)
Poster
Elementary School
Computer Science
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Curriculum
Professional Development…
Poster
High School
Mathematics
Technology
Assessment
Broadening Participation
Classroom Practice
Curriculum…
Students and Teachers Learning from Nature: Studying Biologically Inspired Design in High School Engineering Education
Poster
High School
Engineering
Broadening Participation
Curriculum
Professional Development
Biologically-inspired…
Supporting Teachers in Responsive Instruction for Developing Expertise in Science (Collaborative Research: Linn)
Poster
Middle School
Science
Technology
Assessment
Broadening Participation
Curriculum
Educational Technology…
Poster
Elementary School
Science
Broadening Participation
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Pedagogical Content Knowledge…
Young Mathematicians: Expanding an Innovative and Promising Model Across Learning Environments to Promote Preschoolers' Mathematics Knowledge
Poster
Pre-Kindergarten
Mathematics
Broadening Participation
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Professional Development…
Poster
Middle School
High School
Mathematics
Curriculum
Professional Development
The goal of the design and…
Poster
Middle School
Curriculum
Professional Development
Description: Reading, writing, revision and even publication are integral to progressing…
Preparing Next Generation Scientists Through Teacher and Extension Science Partnerships and Schoolyard Citizen Science Investigations in Elementary Schools
Poster
Elementary School
Science
Curriculum
Professional Development
Research shows a need for professional development (PD) that…
Getting Unstuck: Designing and Evaluating Teacher Resources to Support Conceptual and Creative Fluency with Programming
Poster
Elementary School
Computer Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Professional Development
We are…
Building a Teacher Knowledge Base for the Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Resources through the Collaborative Investigation of Video Cases (Collaborative Research: Murray and Wilson)
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Middle School
High School
Mathematics
Assessment
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Professional…
Extending and Investigating the Impact of the High School Model-based Educational Resource (Collaborative Research: Passmore and Wilson)
Poster
Pre-Kindergarten
Elementary School
Computer Science
Science
Technology
Curriculum
Educational Technology…
Strengthening STEM Teaching in Native American Serving Schools through Long-Term, Culturally Responsive Professional Development
Poster
Middle School
High School
Computer Science
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology…
Sensing Science through Modeling: Developing Kindergarten Students' Understanding of Matter and Its Changes
Poster
Elementary School
Science
Technology
Curriculum
Educational Technology
Professional Development…
Reaching Across the Hallway: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting Computer Science in Rural Schools
Poster
Middle School
Computer Science
Broadening Participation
Curriculum
Professional Development
"Reaching Across…