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Full-Text Articles in Science and Mathematics Education
Engaging Students In A Genetics Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Utilizing Caenorhabditis Elegans In Hybrid Learning To Explore Human Disease Gene Variants, Natalie Forte, Virginia Veasey, Bethany Christie, Amira Carter, Marli Hanks, Alan Holderfield, Taylor Houston, Anil Challa, Ashley Turner
Engaging Students In A Genetics Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Utilizing Caenorhabditis Elegans In Hybrid Learning To Explore Human Disease Gene Variants, Natalie Forte, Virginia Veasey, Bethany Christie, Amira Carter, Marli Hanks, Alan Holderfield, Taylor Houston, Anil Challa, Ashley Turner
Research, Publications & Creative Work
Genetic analysis in model systems using bioinformatic approaches provides a rich context for a concrete and conceptual understanding of gene structure and function. With the intent to engage students in research and explore disease biology utilizing the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans model, we developed a semester-long course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in a hybrid (online/in-person) learning environment—the gene-editing and evolutionary nematode exploration CURE (GENE-CURE). Using a combination of bioinformatic and molecular genetic tools, students performed structure-function analysis of disease-associated variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in human orthologs. With the aid of a series of workshop-style research sessions, students worked in teams …
High-Growth Elementary Schools In Arkansas Based On Performance On The Act Aspire Examinations, Sarah C. Mckenzie
High-Growth Elementary Schools In Arkansas Based On Performance On The Act Aspire Examinations, Sarah C. Mckenzie
Arkansas Education Reports
This section highlights elementary schools across the state whose students demonstrated high growth on the Arkansas ACT Aspire exams. The ACT Aspire was administered to students in grades 3 through 10 in April 2023 in Math and ELA courses which include English, Writing, and Reading. Each table in this section presents the Top 20 schools for the noted subject area and school level. In addition, these tables include the region in which the schools are located, the grades served at the school, the weighted achievement score, and the content growth score in that particular subject. The level of the schools, …
Imagination To Innovation: Design Thinking For Young Learners, Lindsey Herlehy, Cassandra Armstrong
Imagination To Innovation: Design Thinking For Young Learners, Lindsey Herlehy, Cassandra Armstrong
Publications & Research
Design thinking is the intersection of engineering design and social-emotional learning. Today’s learners must be empathetic problem solvers capable of defining problems and designing appropriate solutions to meet the needs of the user. In this session, participants will experience design thinking through literature-based scenarios appropriate for early learners. They will analyze and compare their own models to those of others and compose a lesson that will engage students in the design thinking process.
Noticing Instructional Challenges In Artifacts Of Teaching, Tara Barnhart, Elizabeth A. Van Es
Noticing Instructional Challenges In Artifacts Of Teaching, Tara Barnhart, Elizabeth A. Van Es
Education Faculty Articles and Research
This study investigates challenges of enactment teachers notice when analyzing artifacts of teaching in a professional development focused on supporting the enactment of NGSS-aligned modeling instruction. Five secondary science teachers participated in a semester-long video club. Transcripts of the segments of their meetings in which they analyzed artifacts of practice were coded to characterize what they noticed in videos and student work samples from their own and others’ classrooms of students engaging in sensemaking. Through an inductive and iterative approach, three main linguistic challenges were identified related to the teachers’ noticing of students’ disciplinary thinking: learning how to communicate with …
Comparing Time Allocation For Teaching Science As Inquiry In Two Educator Preparation Science Methods Courses, Lori A. Dira
Comparing Time Allocation For Teaching Science As Inquiry In Two Educator Preparation Science Methods Courses, Lori A. Dira
Faculty Journal Articles
How much time an institution allocates to content can indicate its overall importance and intended value to the educator preparation program. For decades there have been calls to integrate more authentic science inquiry experiences into not only undergraduate elementary science courses, but into all elementary educator preparation courses. Many elementary educators do not receive training on effective methods for teaching science, they will not feel comfortable and will likely have low self-efficacy. This study investigated the amount of time allocated to teaching science as inquiry and the knowledge participants had prior to and after taking an elementary teaching science methods …
Development And Validation Of A Questionnaire To Explore Teachers’ Knowledge About The Nature Of Mathematics The Teaching And Learning Of Mathematics, Munira Amirali
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Investigating teachers’ knowledge about the nature of mathematics and their viewpoints about the teaching and learning of mathematics is important as it has a great influence on what they do in classrooms. This paper describes the two phases of the development and validation process of an instrument named as Mathematics Teacher Survey Questionnaire (MTSQ) developed to determine Pakistani teachers’ knowledge about the nature of mathematics, its influence on their viewpoints about the teaching and learning of mathematics. Phase one includes item writing, item analysis and item administration whereas phase two includes the tool validation process using Cronbach’s alpha and content …
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On Exponents, Kenneth M. Monks
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On Exponents, Kenneth M. Monks
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
No abstract provided.
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On The Rational Root Theorem, Kenneth M. Monks
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On The Rational Root Theorem, Kenneth M. Monks
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
No abstract provided.
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On Simplifying Radicals, Kenneth M. Monks
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On Simplifying Radicals, Kenneth M. Monks
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
No abstract provided.
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On Precalculus, Kenneth M. Monks
Three Hundred Years Of Helping Others: Maria Gaetana Agnesi On Precalculus, Kenneth M. Monks
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
No abstract provided.
Lagrange’S Study Of Wilson’S Theorem, Carl Lienert
Lagrange’S Study Of Wilson’S Theorem, Carl Lienert
Number Theory
No abstract provided.
Lagrange’S Proof Of The Converse Of Wilson’S Theorem, Carl Lienert
Lagrange’S Proof Of The Converse Of Wilson’S Theorem, Carl Lienert
Number Theory
No abstract provided.
Lagrange’S Proof Of Wilson’S Theorem—And More!, Carl Lienert
Lagrange’S Proof Of Wilson’S Theorem—And More!, Carl Lienert
Number Theory
No abstract provided.
Lagrange’S Alternate Proof Of Wilson’S Theorem, Carl Lienert
Lagrange’S Alternate Proof Of Wilson’S Theorem, Carl Lienert
Number Theory
No abstract provided.
Operationalizing The Duty Of Care Through Rubrics, Emily Faulconer
Operationalizing The Duty Of Care Through Rubrics, Emily Faulconer
Publications
Laboratory experiments are a key aspect of science education. However, they do have risks, and accidents do happen. Science educators have a duty of care, which includes duty of instruction. One tool that can be leveraged for duty of instruction is course rubrics. Including clear safety criteria in the rubric operationalizes the duty of care and allows students to clearly understand safety expectations and competencies. Specifically, the use of organizing schemes such as RAMP (recognize hazards, assess risks, minimize risks, prepare for emergencies) in rubrics can provide clear communication to students.
In Pursuit Of Failure: A Project-Based Learning Approach To Introducing Generative Failure Into High School Physics, Bradford O'Brien
In Pursuit Of Failure: A Project-Based Learning Approach To Introducing Generative Failure Into High School Physics, Bradford O'Brien
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
It is important that students encounter and learn how to respond to failure in their high school experience. In traditional education systems, failure (for students and teachers) is often penalized in a way that stigmatizes failure and disincentivizes intellectual risk-taking. In my experience, as a high school physics teacher, I have witnessed firsthand the impact of the stigmatization of failure in the science classroom. Educators in the science classroom can use projects, lessons, and reimagined grading systems to cultivate a different mindset around failure for their students. As a conceptual physics teacher, I believe that my classroom should be a …
Introduction To A Universal Performance Improvement Method (Chigen-Iku), Yoshihiko Ariizumi
Introduction To A Universal Performance Improvement Method (Chigen-Iku), Yoshihiko Ariizumi
Learning, Teaching, & Researching Optimization
This brief article introduces a universal performance improvement method called Chigen-iku, which has been developed carefully and extensively over more than 25 years through more than 100 individual and group projects based on the principles that were selected through my doctorial study in the field of Instructional Psychology and Technology.
Applying Design-Thinking In Didactic Activities (Adidas), Emily L. Stebbins Md, Elena N. Dansky, Eugene Korsunskiy Mfa, Bridget Marroquin Md, Mitchell H. Tsai Md, Mmm, Fasa, Faacd
Applying Design-Thinking In Didactic Activities (Adidas), Emily L. Stebbins Md, Elena N. Dansky, Eugene Korsunskiy Mfa, Bridget Marroquin Md, Mitchell H. Tsai Md, Mmm, Fasa, Faacd
Larner College of Medicine Fourth Year Advanced Integration Teaching/Scholarly Projects
Background: Although didactic lectures are a common medical education teaching method, data suggest long term retention is minimal.
Objective: Design thinking as a potential means to improve a didactic session on operating room (OR) equipment and safety is explored here.
Methods: During a 2021 didactic session for five CA-1 residents, a faculty member structured a design activity on OR equipment and safety. The residents were asked to build an OR rapid prototype using office supplies. They were given ten minutes to brainstorm, followed by thirty minutes to build.
Results: General feedback from residents (60% response rate) was positive, …
Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptions And Self-Efficacy For Integrated Stem, Deepika Menon, Deef A. A. Shorman, Derek Cox, Amanda Thomas
Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptions And Self-Efficacy For Integrated Stem, Deepika Menon, Deef A. A. Shorman, Derek Cox, Amanda Thomas
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
Educational reform efforts have emphasized preparing highly competent and confident preservice teachers to deliver effective K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) instruction. Self-efficacy is a key variable that influences motivation and performance, and therefore it is necessary to support the development of preservice teachers’ integrated STEM teaching self-efficacy. This mixed-methods study investigates how preservice elementary teachers’ integrated STEM teaching self-efficacy is shaped during their participation in a newly redesigned STEM semester consisting of three concurrent methods courses (science and engineering, mathematics, and technology methods courses). The quantitative data sources included the Self-efficacy for Teaching Integrated STEM instrument administered as …