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Discipline‐centered post‐secondary science education research: Distinctive targets, challenges and opportunities
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Grune and Stratton, 2014-08)
The impact of an integrated approach to science and literacy in elementary school classrooms
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-05)
This study investigates the efficacy of an integrated science and literacy approach at the upper‐elementary level. Teachers in 94 fourth grade classrooms in one Southern state participated. Half of the teachers taught the ...
Curriculum design for inquiry: Preservice elementary teachers' mobilization and adaptation of science curriculum materials
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-09)
Curriculum materials are crucial tools with which teachers engage students in science as inquiry. In order to use curriculum materials effectively, however, teachers must develop a robust capacity for pedagogical design, ...
Visualizing biological data in museums: Visitor learning with an interactive tree of life exhibit
(ACM PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016-08)
In this study, we investigate museum visitor learning and engagement at an interactive visualization of an evolutionary tree of life consisting of over 70,000 species. The study was conducted at two natural history museums ...
Validity Evidence for Learning Progression‐Based Assessment Items That Fuse Core Disciplinary Ideas and Science Practices
(AblexWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-05)
This article evaluates a validity argument for the degree to which assessment tasks are able to provide evidence about knowledge that fuses information from a progression of core disciplinary ideas in ecology and a progression ...
Epistemological framing and novice elementary teachers’ approaches to learning and teaching engineering design
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019-09)
As engineering learning experiences increasingly begin in elementary school, elementary teacher preparation programs are an important site for the study of teacher development in engineering education. In this article, we ...