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Grooms, Jonathon; Enderle, Patrick J.; Hutner, Todd; Murphy, Ashley; Sampson, Victor – NSTA Press, 2016
Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for middle school lab instruction but just are not sure how to do it? "Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physical Science" will provide you with both the information and instructional materials you need to start using this method right away. The book is a one-stop source of expertise, advice,…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Inquiry
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Miranda Sigmon – William & Mary Educational Review, 2015
This article focuses on writing instruction and the necessity for this instruction to be modified regarding the use of literacy in everyday life. Reviewing literature about standards, motivation, and writing instruction makes the implementation of authentic writing tasks evident as a necessity for increasing student motivation and allowing for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Stobaugh, Rebecca; Maxwell, Margaret; Tassell, Janet – Educational Renaissance, 2015
The focus of this research is to examine the impact of an instructional instrument to improve the quality of pre-service teachers' lesson plans. The HEAT instrument focuses on four components essential to high-quality lesson plans: "H"igher-Order Thinking, "E"ngaged Learning, "A"uthentic Learning, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Comparative Analysis, Lesson Plans, Educational Quality
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Richardson, John M. – in education, 2013
The development of digital technology and the participatory culture it engenders presents challenges to secondary school English and drama teachers keen to expose their students to the pleasures and rewards of live theatre. Within Scardamalia's notion of the "knowledge building community" (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1994, 2006;…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Drama, Secondary School Teachers
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Sutcher, Leib; Podolsky, Anne; Espinoza, Danny – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
Developing excellent principals who can set direction, develop people, redesign organizations, and lead instruction requires a system of high-quality preparation and professional development. This paper summarizes the elements of high-quality principal preparation and professional development programs that have been associated with positive school…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education
Becker, Samantha Adams; Brown, Malcolm; Dahlstrom, Eden; Davis, Annie; DePaul, Kristi; Diaz, Veronica; Pomerantz, Jeffrey – EDUCAUSE, 2018
What is on the five-year horizon for higher education institutions? Which trends and technology developments will drive educational change? What are the critical challenges and how can we strategize solutions? These questions regarding technology adoption and educational change steered the discussions of 71 experts to produce this report. Six key…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Johnson, Carla C., Ed.; Walton, Janet B., Ed.; Peters-Burton, Erin E., Ed. – NSTA Press, 2018
What if you could challenge your 12th graders to understand car crashes in the context of physical forces, manufacturing challenges, government safety standards, and individual rights? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Car Crashes" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Physics, Mathematics Instruction
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Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), 2013
Employers report a shortage of talent for STEM-specific jobs -- and in areas such as health care that require "basic STEM competencies." The reasons are many, including: lack of authentic learning activities in STEM subjects, little time for science in elementary school, inadequate K-12 teacher preparation in math and science content,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Careers, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Corey M. Johnson; Kimberly A. Green; Betty J. Galbraith; Carol M. Anelli – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
The learning goals of a lower division honors course, Science as a Way of Knowing, include critical thinking, scientific literacy, quantitative reasoning, communication, and teamwork. To help students develop skills and competencies for the course learning outcomes, we used a case study and developed scaffolded activities and assignments that…
Descriptors: Tests, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Authentic Learning
Benjamin L. McMurry – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Evaluation of Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) needs to be scrutinized according to the same standards of evaluation as other professional materials. Evaluation can be divided into two distinct, yet similar, categories: formal (following a prescribed evaluation model) and informal. The aim of this dissertation is two-fold. The first…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation, Informal Assessment
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Ellis, Heidi J. C.; Hislop, Gregory W.; Jackson, Stoney; Postner, Lori – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Providing students with the professional, communication, and technical skills necessary to contribute to an ongoing software project is critical, yet often difficult in higher education. Involving student teams in real-world projects developed by professional software engineers for actual users is invaluable. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Open Source Technology, Computer Software, Social Values
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Kurz, Terri L.; Kokic, Ivana Batarelo – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2014
Video cases have frequently been developed to model educational instances from an authentic elementary classroom setting for preservice teachers in mathematics and science. Preservice teachers' predilections regarding mathematics and science video cases should influence how cases are integrated within the university classroom. Using Personal…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Preservice Teachers, Authentic Learning
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Dan Grabowski; Katrine K. Rasmussen – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore different kinds of authenticity in four health courses for adolescents. In school-based approaches to health education it is often difficult to present health in ways that make sense and appeal to adolescents. Authenticity, as a health-pedagogical concept which focuses on the quality or condition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Health Education
Parker, Jenni; Herrington, Jan – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
The growth of online learning and the demand for quality education has prompted universities to investigate innovative approaches for providing students with a more interactive, engaging and authentic learning experience. Frameworks such as Garrison, Anderson and Archer?s (2001) community of inquiry (CoI) model have been widely used in the design…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice, Universities, Learner Engagement
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Moeller, Aleidine J., Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2016
The 2016 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSC), a joint conference with the Ohio Foreign Language Association, focused on fostering language and culture connections within and outside the language classroom and across the curriculum at all levels. A variety of approaches aimed at improving skills in language,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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