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Azra Moeed; Stephen Dobson; Sankari Saha – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2024
This book showcases a case study of the development of a generalist early childhood education (ECE) teacher into a confident and competent teacher of science in early childhood with support from a mentor. It argues that with guided mentoring, and later, timely support of a mentor as and when required, ECE teachers can deliver the curriculum, teach…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Science Instruction, Mentors
Daniel Morales-Doyle – Harvard Education Press, 2024
"Transformative Science Teaching" reveals Daniel Morales-Doyle's vision for science education that supports meaningful learning in the sciences. In this sensible and sensitive assessment of science instruction in the United States, Morales-Doyle outlines both what science education is and what it could be. He suggests that a judicious…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods
Page Keeley – NSTA Press, 2024
Here's a fresh way to help your students learn life science by determining how you can help them learn best. "Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 2," offers 30 new formative assessment probes--engaging questions that can reveal what students already know (or think they know) about a core science topic. Armed with that…
Descriptors: Science Education, Knowledge Level, Biological Sciences, Scientific Concepts
Jane Calvert – MIT Press, 2024
Where does science and technology studies (STS) belong? In "A Place for Science and Technology Studies," Jane Calvert takes readers through eight different rooms--the laboratory, the conference room, the classroom, the coffee room, the art studio, the bioethics building, the policy room, and the ivory tower--investigating the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Scientific Research, Biology, Social Science Research
Frederic Krome – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student's curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a requirement, rather than from interest. The discovery that they can read or watch science…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Science Fiction
Nani Teig, Editor; Trude Nilsen, Editor; Kajsa Yang Hansen, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
This open access book presents original research on effective and equitable teacher practice in mathematics and science education across Nordic countries. It focuses on three key aspects of teacher practice: what teachers teach, how teachers teach, and how teachers assess their students. To provide a comprehensive understanding of teacher…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods
Jeffrey Wayne Elias – APA Books, 2024
Scientific research relies on funding, and everyone who conducts research must become adept at funding their research. This book explains how to attain the number one source of research funding: grants. Readers will learn how to prepare grant proposals, how and when to interact with funding institutions, how to interpret and respond to peer review…
Descriptors: Grants, Grantsmanship, Program Proposals, Scientific Research
Carla C. Johnson Ed.; Janet B. Walton Ed.; Erin Peters-Burton Ed. – Eye on Education, 2024
What if you could challenge your fourth graders to create a minimally invasive, highly efficient dam? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Hydropower Efficiency" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Learning Activities
K. Venkat Reddy, Editor; G. Suvarna Lakshmi, Editor – Springer, 2024
This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing importance of critical thinking in Educational Settings. It's a new publication format in which state-of-the-art computer algorithms are applied to select the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Intellectual Disciplines, Business Education
Camille Kandiko Howson, Editor; Martyn Kingsbury, Editor – UCL Press, 2024
In "Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education," leading scholars, teachers, practitioners and students explore belonging and identity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, and how this is impacted by disciplinary changes and the post-pandemic higher education context. In STEM fields, positivist…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Sense of Community, STEM Education, Higher Education
Christopher Harris; Joe Krajcik; James Pellegrino – NSTA Press, 2024
Imagine handing out assessments that spark enthusiasm rather than dread. In six easy-to-follow steps, this book empowers science teachers to create tasks that guide students to use their knowledge, not just memorize facts. The NGSA design process transforms assessments into valuable classroom tools that teachers can use to chart how students'…
Descriptors: Standards, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Teaching Guides
Hong Jiao, Editor; Robert W. Lissitz, Editor – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
With the exponential increase of digital assessment, different types of data in addition to item responses become available in the measurement process. One of the salient features in digital assessment is that process data can be easily collected. This non-conventional structured or unstructured data source may bring new perspectives to better…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing
Thomas DeVere Wolsey; Diane Lapp – Guilford Press, 2024
This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents' development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines. Demonstrating why disciplinary literacies matter, the authors discuss ways to teach close reading of complex texts; discipline-specific argumentation,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Guides, Intellectual Disciplines, Online Courses
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Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Editor; Sandy S. C. Li, Editor; Sebastian Pahs, Editor – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2024
In 2021, the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, the funding body for higher education in Hong Kong, initiated a scheme and associated grant fund with the aim of enhancing the use of technology for teaching in higher education institutions in Hong Kong. In the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, the funding was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, College Faculty, Teacher Collaboration
Mary John O'Hair, Editor; Philip A. Woods, Editor; H. Dan O'Hair, Editor – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2024
"Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict" explores the complexities of addressing divisive societal challenges, reducing conflicts, and building and sustaining peace and democracy around the world. Contributions by an international panel of experts provide evidence-based practices,…
Descriptors: Peace, Democracy, Conflict Resolution, Evidence Based Practice
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