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A guide for how to use Histories of Place in planning and instruction.
This resource serves as a guide for how to use Histories of Place in planning and instruction.
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This graphic is designed to support students, teachers, and families in thinking across timescales to understand socio-ecological relationships to place across time.
This graphic is designed to support…
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In this article, authors explain how 114 years of Hawaiian-language newspapers starting in 1834 extend our knowledge of natural disasters into the nineteenth century and to precontact times.
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How Place-based Science Education Strategies can Support Equity for Students, Teachers, and Communities
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This brief describes how to support equity for students, teachers, and communities through place-based science education strategies.
This brief describes how to support equity for students, teachers,…
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Explore tips, resources, and toolkits on communication about research and development.
Explore additional tips, resources, and toolkits on communication about research and development:
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This article reports on how three prospective teachers had differing opportunities to demonstrate their skills in the context of the field assessment, but similar opportunities in the context of the simulation assessment…
The Impact of Engineering Curriculum Design Principles on Elementary Students’ Engineering and Science Learning
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This article reports an efficacy study of an elementary engineering curriculum, Engineering is Elementary, that includes a set of hypothesized critical components designed to encourage student engagement in practices,…
The Effect of Automated Feedback on Revision Behavior and Learning Gains in Formative Assessment of Scientific Argument Writing
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This study investigates a formative feedback system integrated into an online science curriculum module teaching climate change.
Application of new automated scoring technologies, such as natural…
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This study analyzes the engineering design behaviors of 108 ninth-grade U.S. students using principal component analysis and cluster analysis.
Engineering design is a complex process which requires…
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This mixed-method study was designed to examine whether middle school students’ in-game actions are likely to promote certain types of learning engagement (i.e., content and cognitive engagement).
Game-…
Teachers’ Views of Students’ Mathematical Capabilities: Challenges and Possibilities for Ambitious Reform
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This study offers a large-scale snapshot of middle-grades teachers’ views of their students’ mathematical capabilities in the context of instructional reform.
Background: Research suggests that teachers…
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This document is the final evaluation report of the STEM Student Reporting Labs.
Existing research indicates that engaging and sustaining youth interest in STEM subjects past elementary school remains…
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This paper investigates how one elementary school child with specific visual motor integration differences constructed a unit fraction concept.
Cognitive differences have historically led to deficit…
Eliminating Counterexamples: A Case Study Intervention for Improving Adolescents’ Ability to Critique Direct Arguments
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This case study investigates U.S. eighth-grade (age 13) mathematics students’ conceptions about the validity of a direct argument after the students received instruction on the eliminating counterexamples (ECE) framework…
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In this article, authors explore a variety of types of responsive teaching and elaborate a specific type of responsive teaching—epistemologically responsive science teaching.
Meaningfully engaging…
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This conversion mixed method study analyzed student work samples and teacher lesson plans from seven exemplary inclusive STEM high schools to better understand at what level teachers at these schools are engaging and…
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This article describes how diagrams can be a powerful tool to develop and communicate mathematical understanding for English language learners.
For English language learners, diagrams can be a powerful…
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This manuscript focuses on longitudinal research with four primary inservice teachers’ learning and engagement in model-based teaching about water over three years, investigating teachers conceptualizations and practice…
Helping K-12 Teachers Get Unstuck with Scratch: The Design of an Online Professional Learning Experience
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In this paper, authors describe the design and implementation of Getting Unstuck, a 21-day, email-based learning experience for K-12 teachers interested in developing greater familiarity and fluency with Scratch…
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In this article, authors examined classroom videos of nine experienced teachers of elementary, middle, and high school science, aiming to create a model of FA enactment that is useful to teachers.…
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In this study, authors examined middle-school students’ naturally occurring design conversations in small design teams and their learning of science as a result of engaging in an engineering and science unit…
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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…
Fostering Video Sharing and Discourse Among STEM Educational Researchers in a Multimodal Environment
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This article looks at the 2017 STEM for All Video Showcase, a multimodal environment, that enabled educational researchers to share and discuss short videos depicting their federally-funded work to improve STEM education.…
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A student assessment of science literacy for urban ecology.
A student assessment of science literacy for urban ecology.
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This survey is designed to gather information about how interests in Urban Ecology and STEM careers have changed after participating in the Urban Ecology course.
This survey is designed to gather…