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Mertz, Pamela S.; Sherrer, Shanen M.; Bowers, Geoffrey M. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at St. Mary's College of Maryland has scaffolded collaboration skills throughout the Biochemistry curriculum and developed several assessment tools to evaluate these skills. Biochemistry I and II have used team contracts at the beginning of extensive team projects where students identify their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning
Krystal Dawn Grieger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There has been a growing emphasis on integrating green and sustainable chemistry (GSC) into the curriculum. Unfortunately, there is yet to be a nationwide, uniform decision of which aspects should be included or how, leaving individual instructors or institutions to decide whether--and how--to address GSC knowledge. Furthermore, faculty nationwide…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Organic Chemistry
Kevin McElhaney; Rochelle Urban; Danae Kamdar; Anthony Baker; KellyAnn Tsai; Jeremy Roschelle – Digital Promise, 2024
OpenSciEd is a set of Creative Commons licensed, standards aligned curriculum and teacher professional learning materials that will be available for grades K-12. Using a storyline model that gives students the responsibility of "figuring out" science phenomena by engaging in science practices and classroom discussion to achieve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
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Justine Hobbins; Emilie Houston; Kerry Ritchie – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
The shift from face-to-face (F2F) to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in response to COVID-19 has presented concerns for assessment in student learning. This study presents the comparison of a health science curriculum in F2F and ERT settings regarding assessments (count, type, authenticity) using our Authentic Assessment Tool and institutionally…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Closing, Distance Education, COVID-19
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Conie Mae Sudaria; Joje Mar P. Sanchez – Science Education International, 2024
The study examined how well Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO)-based formative evaluations might improve students' comprehension in the context of science education, with an emphasis on seismic events like earthquakes. Using a mixed-method research design, the study assesses students' entry understanding, how they advance through…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Seismology
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Kim, Youngshin; Lee, Yun-hye; Lee, Hyonyong; Lim, Soo-min – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study examined a network of concepts used in the curriculum, textbooks, instruction, and assessment in relation to somatic cell division and investigated the alignment of science concepts used in them. Textbooks and teachers' instruction and evaluation questions were collected to analyse the alignment between the concepts and the conceptual…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Cesljarev, Claire; Akerson, Valarie – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2022
Incorporating literacy instruction in science is a beneficial practice that uses interdisciplinary strategies to address connections between language arts and science. Interdisciplinary curricular approaches in education are common expectations for science teachers and there are increasingly more mandates for embedding literacy into science…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literacy, Science Instruction
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Shu-Fen Lin; Wan-Chin Shie – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Teachers lack effective curriculum-based instruments to assess their students' scientific competence that would provide information for modifying their inquiry instruction. The main purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Curriculum-Based Scientific Competence (CBSC) test to assess students' scientific competence in a 1-semester Grade…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Validity, Grade 9, Science Tests
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Belge Can, Hatice; Boz, Yezdan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to explore the development of pre-service chemistry teachers' pedagogical content knowledge regarding the effect of temperature on reaction rate topic as they took pedagogical content knowledge courses throughout the teacher education program. Pre-service teachers' pedagogical content knowledge was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Chemistry, Science Teachers
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Rutter, Charles; Pancorbo, Jennifer – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
Fermentation is responsible for the production of myriad products across a variety of industrial sectors. In particular, the biomanufacturing industry requires a labor force proficient in fermentation and its associated technologies to drive the production of recombinant protein therapeutics. This paper describes the development of a course that…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Manufacturing Industry, Biochemistry, Scientific Concepts
Nicole C. Kymissis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis study was to understand the perspectives of Massachusetts biology teachers and discover if the 2016 changes to the Massachusetts Science, Technology, and Engineering (STE) Curriculum Frameworks impacted their instructional practices and pedagogy. Concentrating on the consequences of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biology, Educational Policy, Science Teachers
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McGrath, Allison L.; Tejero Hughes, Marie – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2021
Most students with disabilities in the United States receive science instruction in general education classrooms; however, little is known about the academic success for students with learning disabilities (LD) in these classes. This case study takes place in an inclusive science classroom that used an inquiry approach to learning science and…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Science Education, Student Needs
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Donovan, Deborah A.; Clemmons, Alexa W.; Crowe, Alison J. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Recent calls to reform undergraduate biology education, including Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education, have led biology departments to examine their curriculum to determine the extent to which it aligns with Vision and Change content and competency recommendations. The recently released BioSkills Guide translates the broad Vision…
Descriptors: Biology, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Pols, C. F. J.; Dekkers, P. J. J. M.; de Vries, M. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Physics inquiry can be interpreted as the construction of a cogent argument in which students apply inquiry knowledge and knowledge of physics to the systematic collection of relevant, valid, and reliable data, creating optimal scientific support for a conclusion that answers the research question. In learning how to devise, conduct and evaluate a…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Active Learning, Inquiry, Physics
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Lee, Wei Ching; Der-Thanq Chen, Victor; Wang, Li-Yi – Teacher Development, 2021
Teachers' consideration may affect their intention to implement learner-centred pedagogy. Literature showed that aspects such as task goal, students' characteristics, teachers' ability, learning environment design, and school shape teacher considerations in teaching analysis. However, the interrelationship among these aspects remains largely…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Course Content
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