…new world of automated scoring. We have developed a dashboard to help teachers keep track of student progress in real time. Before HASBot, teacher reports were limited to viewing student…
…they work together to solve simulated real-world electronics problems on separate computers linked by the Internet. Since we already had an existing standalone online circuit simulator from a previous project,…
…improve scientific argumentation? How do teachers use and interact with class-level automated scores and feedback to support students’ scientific argumentation with real-world data and models? How do students perceive their…
…with the physical world. Some researchers believe that it is impossible to separate the nature of thinking from the bodies we inhabit, hence learning and understanding are shaped by the…
…understanding of water. Model My Watershed is based on the premise that this barrier between students’ conceptual understanding of watershed content and their real world actions can be bridged by…
…eclipse circulars for decades, and NASA’s eclipse bulletins after that. Fred retired in 2009, depriving the eclipse-chasing world of these marvelous documents, but the eclipse of 2017 pulled him back…
…curricular sequences to support both teachers and students in gaining the experimentation and data analysis skills necessary to engage in learning about the world through exploration of phenomena. Discover activities,…
…explain real-world evidence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Baltimore, MD. Staudt, C. & Lee, H. –S. (2019). Agent-based and systems…
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…fitness, and natural selection–but traditional curricula do not attempt to integrate these concepts or to use them to explain observations of the natural world. We tested students who had used…