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Investigating Purposeful Science Curriculum Adaptation as a Strategy to Improve Teaching and Learning
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Debarger, Angela Haydel; Penuel, William R.; Moorthy, Savitha; Beauvineau, Yves; Kennedy, Cathleen A.; Boscardin, Christy Kim – Science Education, 2017
In this paper, we investigate the potential and conditions for using curriculum adaptation to support reform of science teaching and learning. With each wave of reform in science education, curriculum has played a central role and the contemporary wave focused on implementation of the principles and vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Developing Tasks to Assess Phenomenon-Based Science Learning: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Building Proximal Transfer Tasks
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Penuel, William R.; Turner, Michael L.; Jacobs, Jennifer K.; Horne, Katie; Sumner, Tamara – Science Education, 2019
The vision for science proficiency presented in "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" calls for significant shifts in both teaching and assessment. In this paper, we describe an effort to develop and validate a set of "proximal transfer tasks" for high school biology classrooms where teachers were implementing a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Guidelines, Elementary Secondary Education
The Roles of Regional Partners in Supporting an International Earth Science Education Program
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Penuel, William R.; Shear, Linda; Korbak, Christine; Sparrow, Elena – Science Education, 2005
This study explores the roles that regional partners play in helping to support implementation of the GLOBE program, an international earth science and education initiative. Researchers at SRI International conducted case studies of two GLOBE partners' practices in an effort to identify the factors that contribute to effective implementation of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Research, State Standards, Science Curriculum