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Introductory biology courses form a cornerstone of undergraduate instruction. However, the predominantly used lecture approach fails to produce higher-order biology learning. Research shows that active learning strategies…
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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…
A Design Pattern for Observational Investigation Assessment Tasks (Large Scale Assessment Technical Report 2)
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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…
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Svihla, V., Linn, M. C. (2011). A Design-based approach to fostering understanding of global climate change. International Journal of Science Education. DOI:10.1080/09500693.2011.597453
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To prepare students to…
A Design-Based Process in Characterizing Experienced Teachers’ Formative Assessment Enactment in Science Classrooms
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Formative assessment can facilitate teachers’ abilities to elicit and notice the disciplinary substance of students’ thinking and to respond based on this. Following a design-based process, we developed principled…
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Middle School
Mathematics
Technology
Boo MurrayPam LePageJody SikerJanet BowesSusan Nickerson
Jeremy…
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Many of us learned about dominant and recessive genes in a humdrum high school biology class. Some of us may still recognize the terms and symbols twenty or thirty years later—are your eyes bb or Bb? But, as it turns out,…
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This session describes a suite of instruments for measuring implementation of instructional materials and ways those instruments have been adapted to other materials and interventions…
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Using existing literature, authors create a hypothetical framework of cognitive processes associated with studying informal best fit lines and refine the framework using data from a cycle of design-based research about…
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A problematic, yet common, assumption among educational researchers is that when teachers provide authentic, problem-based experiences, students will automatically be engaged. Evidence indicates that this is often not the…
A Framework for Measuring Fidelity of Implementation: A Foundation for Shared Language and Accumulation of Knowledge
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This article describes a project that holds the development of Fidelity of Implementation (FOI) measures as its primary goal and has developed a suite of data collection tools designed to be used across multiple programs.…
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Estimating and monitoring the construct-irrelevant variance (CIV) is of significant importance to validity, especially for constructed response assessments with rich contextualized information. To examine CIV in…
A Geometric Path to the Concept of Function: Transformations using dynamic software can provide a unique perspective on a common topic.
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The concept of function spans elementary school through high school. When introducing the topic to elementary school and middle school students, we ask them to work with a variety of examples and representations of…
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Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) are restricted latent class models with a set of cross-class equality constraints and additional monotonicity constraints on their item parameters, both of which are needed to ensure…
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This Citizen Science Guide provides specific guidance on identifying relevant citizen science projects that fits an educators' curricular and instructional needs.
This Citizen Science Guide provides…
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Understand students’ fraction concepts through interview tasks. Includes tasks and guide to record student thinking.
Understand students’ fraction concepts through interview tasks. Includes tasks…
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Middle School
High School
Science
Charles Anderson
Daniel Gallagher
Mark Wilson…
A Learning Progression-based System for Promoting Understanding of Carbon-transforming Processes (CCE)
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Middle School
High School
Science
Kathleen Schwille
Charles Anderson…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Unit Iteration Concepts for Length, Area, and Volume (Grades 2-4) (Barrett et al.)
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Mathematics
Presentation
Elementary
Barrett, J.
Cullen, C.
Witkowski, C…
A Longitudinal Examination of Children's Developing Knowledge of Measurement: Mathematical and Scientific Concept and Strategy Growth from Pre-K through Grade 5
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Elementary School
Mathematics
Science
Jeffrey Barrett
Douglas Clements
Julie…
A Longitudinal Randomized Trial Study of Middle School Science for English Language Learners (Project MSSELL) (Collaborative Research: Irby)
Poster
Middle School
Science
Beverly Irby
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This counterstory (Delgado, 1989; Martinez, 2020) is based on field notes (Oct. 19 & Nov. 1, 2022) from our collective’s ethnographic project working with upper elementary Latiné learners and their transition to middle…
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Concord Consortium’s new Earth Rocks Map displays a generalized representation of Earth’s geology, focused primarily on the distribution of the three major rock types (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary). What makes…
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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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Mastery goal structures, which communicate value for developing deeper understanding, are an important classroom support for student motivation and engagement, especially in the context of science learning aligned with the…
A Model Comparison Approach to Posterior Predictive Model Checks in Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis
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Posterior Predictive Model Checking (PPMC) is frequently used for model fit evaluation in Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis (BCFA). In standard PPMC procedures, model misfit is quantified by comparing the location of…
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Digital pen-and-paper technology, although marketed commercially as a bridge between old and new notetaking capabilities, synchronizes the collection of both written and audio data. This manuscript describes how this…
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This project uses plots from books by Roald Dahl, Judy Blume, and others to teach STEM concepts.
Berdik, C. (2015, December 16). A Novel Way to Teach Kids About Engineering. Slate. Retrieved from http…
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This paper employs meta-analysis to determine the influence of computer-based scaffolding characteristics and study and test scorequality on cognitive outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education…
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Educational games are an increasingly popular teaching tool in modern classrooms. However, the development of complementary tools for teachers facilitating classroom gameplay is lacking. We present the results of a…
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A Pleasure to Measure will enable you to select activities quickly, easily, and confidently to target the content that your students are ready to learn. You’ll find everything that you need in the six E’s that the authors…
A Practice-Based Online Learning Environment for Scientific Inquiry with Digitized Museum Collections in Middle School Classrooms
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Middle School
Science
Cognitive Science
Educational Technology
EPIC Bioscience engages middle school students in authentic…
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This article highlights the production of doctorates in mathematics education for the past fifty years.
Institutions in the United States have been producing PhDs in mathematics education for more than…
A Remote View into the Classroom: Analyzing Teacher Use of Digitally Enhanced Educative Curriculum Materials in Support of Student Learning
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When integrated into online curriculum modules for students, educative curriculum materials (ECMs) can enhance teachers’ enactment of these modules. This study investigated (1) the use of digitally enhanced ECMs built into…
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A curriculum developer on the DataPBL project details his journey searching for data about the Japanese American internment for 8th grade students to explore with CODAP.
A curriculum developer on the…
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A first-year algebra student’s curiosity about factorials of negative numbers became a starting point for an extended discovery lesson into territory not usually explored in secondary school mathematics…
A Study of a Technology-enhanced Curriculum Integrating Science, Engineering Design, and Computational Modeling to Achieve Synergistic Learning with Elementary Students
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Elementary School
STEM+C
Engineering
Science
Technology
Kevin McElhaney…
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The context for this study was an intervention that provided professional development (PD) for preschool (pre-K) and kindergarten (K) teachers and science engagement activities for families. The research sought to…
A Successful Professional Development Model for Preparing Teachers to use Reform-Based Curriculum Effectively (Sutherland, Krajcik)
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In this session, participants experience a PD model that successfully encourages teachers to adopt a curriculum’s underlying philosophy rather than simply to enact it as sequence of activities…
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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…
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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…
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To understand the mathematics writing of students, we conducted a synthesis to evaluate empirical research about mathematics writing. We identified 29 studies that included a mathematics-writing assessment, intervention,…
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The NSF’s Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program is one potential source of funding for the needed research on the educational effectiveness of gaming and simulations. The DR K-12 program seeks to enhance the teaching…
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Other
CADRE
Abt Associates, Inc.
Community for Advancing Discovery Research in…
A Task Force on Conceptualizing Elementary Mathematical Writing: Implications for Mathematics Education Stakeholders
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Elementary School
Mathematics
Tutita Casa
Janine Firmender
ELL Spotlight…
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations
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Shen, J., & Linn, M. C. (2011). Connecting scientific explanations and everyday observations: A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity. International Journal of Science Education, 33(12), 1597-1623.…
A Three-Part Synchronous Online Model for Middle Grade Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development
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In this chapter, we describe a three-part fully online model for the professional development of middle school mathematics teachers. This chapter contributes to understanding how online contexts provide opportunities to…
A Training Ground for Women of Color in STEM: Spelman College Tackles the STEM Pipeline as a Social Justice Issue
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Paper from the 2016 Advancing Social Justice from Classroom to Community Conference.
Computer Science
Technology
Broadening Participation
Gaming/…
A View of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Research and its Lessons for Future-Generation Collaboration Systems
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Stahl, G. (2012f). A view of computer-supported collaborative learning research and its lessons for future-generation collaboration systems. Future Generation Computer Systems.
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This is a review of research on…
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We describe an online citizen science platform for human brain and behavior research that uses a participatory science learning approach to engage learners in the full spectrum of scientific inquiry.
We…