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Sarah LeMire; Zhihong Xu; Doug Hahn – College & Research Libraries, 2025
As higher education continues to focus its attention on first-generation college students, academic libraries are increasingly interested in designing outreach and instruction programs to support these students, especially during their first year of college. This study informs these efforts by implementing a standardized test to assess the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Information Literacy
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Ballard, Joy; Mooring, Suazette Reid – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The need for more sustainable practices is in high demand. Green chemistry discusses practices that would lead to less harmful chemical products ending up in the environment. Herein, we describe an outreach activity that introduces minority high school students to the topic of green chemistry. Three hands-on activities were done to illustrate a…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, High School Students, Minority Group Students, Student Satisfaction
Johnson, Mona M.; Hertel, Ron; Chauvin, Ramona; Petrokubi, Julie; Pierce, Sarah – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2019
Social emotional learning (SEL) is broadly understood to be a process through which people build awareness and skills in managing emotions, setting goals, establishing relationships, and making responsible decisions. Research highlighted in this report demonstrates that the effective integration of SEL in school systems creates a foundation for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Schultz, Kelly M.; Snyder, Mark A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
A hands-on educational module was created to illustrate the scope of chemical engineering. Students are taught fundamental concepts that they integrate in a laboratory experience designing and fabricating a 'plant-on-a-chip' microfluidic device capable of continuous processing of reactive flows. Students gain insight into chemical engineering…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, STEM Education, Outreach Programs, Student Recruitment
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Bookhagen, Britta; Koeberl, Christian; Juang, Linda; DeRosa, Donald A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
As part of an outreach initiative by the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, an interdisciplinary educational module was developed to teach students about sustainability through the lens of mineral resources used to produce mobile phones. The overall goal of the module is to provide teachers of different subjects with a multifaceted tool to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outreach Programs, Sustainability, Mineralogy
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Scharfenberg, Franz-Josef; Bogner, Franz X. – Research in Science Education, 2016
How pre-service teachers (PST) develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) during science teacher education is an open research question. Our teacher education module, theoretically based on PCK, specifically combines biology PSTs' education with high school students' biology education and includes an innovative role change approach. Altogether,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge