STEM and computer science education publications
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Examining Teachers’ Instructional Moves Aimed at Developing Students’ Ideas and Questions in Learner-Centered Science Classrooms
We examined teachers’ instructional moves to elicit and develop students’ ideas and questions as they orchestrated discourse with their fifth grade students during a learner-centered environmental biology unit.
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Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters
This study examines how students' experimentation with a virtual environment contributes to their understanding of a complex, realistic inquiry problem.
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Formative Assessment Practices to Promote Model-Based Reasoning in Earth Science
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Scientific Literacy In The Context Of Civic Reasoning: An Educational Design Problem
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Supporting science teaching with scientists and engineers in middle school classrooms
Bienkowski, M. & Dieterle, E. (2011). Supporting science teaching with scientists and engineers in middle school classrooms. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April), New Orleans, LA.
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Examining Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Over Three Enactments Of A Personally Consequential Elementary Science Unit
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Supporting Generative Thinking About the Integer Number Line in Elementary Mathematics
This report provides evidence of the influence of a tutorial “communication game” on fifth graders’ generative understanding of the integer number line. Analyses of micro-constructions during play revealed properties of…
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Rock-Solid Support: Florida District Weighs Effectiveness Of Science Professional Learning
Professional development that is both content-specific and anchored in what teachers must do in the classroom is becoming the norm for helping teachers improve their science instruction.
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Productive Dispositions For Math Teaching: An Exploratory Study Of Adaptive Expertise
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Can desirable difficulties overcome deceptive clarity in scientific visualizations?
In this chapter we explore ways that desirable difficulties can help learners overcome pitfalls associated with he deceptive clarity of visualizations.
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Datasets for Inquiry in Geoscience: A Design Model
This article describes the results of a proof of concept project, Data Sets for Inquiry in Geoscience (DIGS), funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Preparing Students for Future Learning with Teachable Agents
One valuable goal of instructional technologies in K-12 education is to prepare students for future learning. Two classroom studies examined whether Teachable Agents (TA) achieves this goal.