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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 ...
Intervention program to keep girls in the science pipeline: Outcome differences by ethnic status
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-04)
This study evaluated a 2-week residential program aimed at enhancing the science interest and persistence of high-achieving 8th-grade girls. Questionnaires were administered to 38 program participants (14 of whom were of ...
The Value and Challenges of Using Learning Technologies to Support Students in Learning Science
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
Social environmental impacts on survey cooperation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-05)
Social environmental influences on survey cooperation are explored using data from six national household surveys in the United States matched to 1990 decennial census data. Consistent with the past literature on prosocial ...
Modeling the annual thermal regime of lake Ohrid, Yugoslavia, using daily weather data
(Elsevier, 1982-03)
The time-dependent characteristics of the five weather variables which control the annual thermal response of Lake Ohrid are analyzed in detail. These are daily values for solar radiation, air temperature, humidity, wind ...
The qualitative behavior of coupled predator-prey oscillations as deduced from simple circle maps
(Elsevier, 1994-05)
Qualitative patterns of the non-equilibrium behavior of coupled consumer/resource systems, formulated as a standard circle map, are explored. Patterns of demographic locking, reflected as a "devil's staircase", are observed ...
Social policy evaluation: An example from drinking age legislation
(Elsevier, 1980)
This article represents an exploration into issues relevant to the application of evaluation methodologies and theories to the social policy arena. A number of evaluation approaches and issues are explored in the context ...
Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students' prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-01)
Contextualizing science instruction involves utilizing students' prior knowledge and everyday experiences as a catalyst for understanding challenging science concepts. This study of two middle school science classrooms ...