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Odden, Tor Ole B.; Silvia, Devin W.; Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This article reports on a study investigating how computational essays can be used to help students in higher education STEM take up disciplinary epistemic agency--cognitive control and responsibility over one's own learning within the scientific disciplines. Computational essays are a genre of scientific writing that combine live, executable…
Descriptors: Computation, Essays, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education
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Catley, Kefyn M.; Novick, Laura R.; Shade, Courtney K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
The authors argue that some diagrams in biology textbooks and the popular press presented as depicting evolutionary relationships suggest an inappropriate (anagenic) conception of evolutionary history. The goal of this research was to provide baseline data that begin to document how college students conceptualize the evolutionary relationships…
Descriptors: Evolution, Textbooks, Visual Aids, Topology
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McDermott, Mark A.; Hand, Brian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
This study aims to add to the growing research related to the implementation of non-traditional writing tasks in classrooms to encourage science literacy. A secondary reanalysis methodology was employed to review student interviews collected as a part of several individual studies during a ten year research program. This method established an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Transcripts (Written Records), Coding