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Expanding Participation: Supporting Newcomer Students' Language Development through Disciplinary Practices
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Alvarez, Laura; De Loney, Marguerite; Capitelli, Sarah; Valdés, Guadalupe; Julia Biernacki, Paulina – Language and Education, 2023
In teaching newcomer students, educators must envision how to provide opportunities for language use and development through age-appropriate content instruction. This article describes a design research study, in which we developed and piloted 5th grade science units and studied the participation of two newcomer students in sense-making…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Personal Universes: Revealing Community College Students' Competences though Their Organization of the Cosmos
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Buck Bracey, Zoë – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
In this article I present a study on learners' conceptions in cosmology by situating the results in the context of broader historical and sociocultural themes. Participants were community college students in California from non-dominant cultural and linguistic backgrounds finishing their first semester of astronomy. Data were collected through a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Freehand Drawing, Misconceptions
Assessment at the Intersection of Science and Literacy
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Pearson, P. David; Knight, Amanda M.; Cannady, Matthew A.; Henderson, J. Bryan; McNeill, Katherine L. – Theory Into Practice, 2015
The authors of this article, all of whom have been a part of this effort to assess argumentation in literacy-rich science curriculum, have struggled with our attempts to build 3 argument-related assessments--understanding, critiquing, and constructing arguments about scientific phenomena in both oral and written modes. Loosely affiliated with the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
Video of Children as Anchors in an Online Forum for Elementary School Teachers: A Tool for Positioning Oneself as Knowledgeable about Physics
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Swanson, Lauren; Harlow, Danielle – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2013
The authors investigated how prospective teachers enrolled in an undergraduate physical science course participated in an online forum in which they posted reactions to video episodes of children talking about science. Using Positioning Theory (Harre & Van Langenhove, 1991) as a lens, the authors analyzed 108 online posts from 26…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Physics, Computer Mediated Communication, Science Instruction
Measuring Complex Features of Science Instruction: Developing Tools to Investigate the Link between Teaching and Learning
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Thadani, Vandana; Stevens, Ronald H.; Tao, Annie – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
There is a growing national recognition that teachers and teaching are at the heart of successful educational reform. However, few tools exist for measuring classroom instruction. The primary purpose of this article is to describe methods we developed to measure and study teaching, specifically while teachers were using a multimedia intervention…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Change, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Integrating Literacy and Science Instruction in High School Biology: Impact on Teacher Practice, Student Engagement, and Student Achievement
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Greenleaf, Cynthia; Hanson, Thomas; Herman, Joan; Litman, Cindy; Madden, Sarah; Rosen, Rachel; Boscardin, Christy; Schneider, Steve; Silver, David – National Science Foundation, 2009
This study investigates the effects of integrating literacy instruction with biology coursework on high school student learning. It would investigate the relationship between the growth in reading achievement and biology learning. It will target schools serving especially large populations of African American and Latino students. The project will…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Literacy Education, Interdisciplinary Approach