Education & learning publications
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Assessing Systems Thinking and Complexity in Science
This technical report provides support for designing tasks that assess systems thinking, in the form of a design pattern.
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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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Scaling Up SimCalc Project Tech Report Series: Design and Development of the Student and Teacher Mathematical Assessments
This technical report documents the design and development of the student and teacher mathematical content assessment instruments for the Scaling Up SimCalc Project.
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Using Knowledge about How People Learn to Define Learning Goals
How well are college general education classes preparing students to apply big ideas to real-world problems? What are the major steps of domain-specific assessment design? Presented at Innovations 2010.
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Dynamics of North American Sector Ionospheric and Thermospheric Response During the November 2004 Superstorm
We present a study of ionospheric and thermospheric response during a November 9–10, 2004 major geomagnetic storm event (DsT ∼−300 nT).
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Building Relationships That Foster a STEM Continuum for Girls
Who We Are: Project Background and Partners • InnovaTE³: Mission, Goals, Curriculum, Participants • STEM Continuum Programming • Strategies for Building Relationships • Youth Development Approach • Evaluation • Successes…
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Girls InnovaTE3: Girls Innovating with Technology as Entrepreneurial Environmental Engineers
InnovaTE3 is part of our ongoing effort to create a six-year STEM continuum for middle and high school girls in an afterschool program.
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The Alignment of the Informal and Formal Organizational Supports for Reform: Implications for Improving Teaching in Schools
This article combines social network analysis with interview data to analyze how well the formal and informal aspects of a school’s social context are aligned.
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Managing inquiry-based science: Challenges in enacting complex science instruction in K-8 classrooms
In this article, we describe five interconnected management areas that need to be addressed when managing an inquiry-oriented K-8 science classroom. We introduce a pyramid model as a framework for…
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Language Analytics for Assessing Brain Health: Cognitive Impairment, Depression and Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimers Disease
We present data demonstrating how brain health may be assessed by applying data-mining and text analytics to patient language.
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Representational Technology For Learning Mathematics: An Investigation Of Teaching Practices In Latino/A Classrooms
This paper explores representation- and language-rich mathematics instruction in two classrooms with low-income Latino/a students.
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21st Century Skills in STEM Workforce Training Assessments
What skills do tech employers seek? A scenario-based learning approach for teaching STEM tech education is posited.