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Chloe D. Bowen; Alexa R. Summersill; Angela N. Google; Madeline G. Aadnes; M. Elizabeth Barnes – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Effective communication about science is a core skill undergraduates should learn, but little research has explored how students communicate about culturally controversial science topics. In this study, we explored how Black undergraduate science students took on the role of science communicators in their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Scherr, Rachel E.; Plisch, Monica; Goertzen, Renee Michelle – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Understanding the mechanisms of increasing the number of physics teachers educated per year at institutions with thriving physics teacher preparation programs may inspire and support other institutions in building thriving programs of their own. The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC), led by the American Physical Society (APS) and the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Sustainability
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Koch, Paul L.; Soldat, Douglas J.; Horgan, Brian P.; Bauer, Samuel J.; Patton, Aaron J. – Journal of Extension, 2017
Increasing costs and decreasing numbers of university Extension faculty have made it difficult to provide quality turfgrass short course education. In response, faculty from nine institutions collaborated to develop the Great Lakes School of Turfgrass Science. This 12-week online course provides students with unique learning experiences through a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Programs, College Science, Program Development
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Pfirman, Stephanie; Hamilton, Lawrence; Turrin, Margie; Narveson, Craig; Lloyd, Carrie A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
This first analysis of aggregated data from the Kahoot! game-based player response system demonstrates that it can provide assessments of overall US student polar knowledge and identifies differences in polar knowledge across several states. A kahoot online quiz on polar topics recorded over 25,000 United States teacher-hosted classroom players…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Earth Science, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries
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Pelletreau, Karen N.; Knight, Jennifer K.; Lemons, Paula P.; McCourt, Jill S.; Merrill, John E.; Nehm, Ross H.; Prevost, Luanna B.; Urban-Lurain, Mark; Smith, Michelle K. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Helping faculty develop high-quality instruction that positively affects student learning can be complicated by time limitations, a lack of resources, and inexperience using student data to make iterative improvements. We describe a community of 16 faculty from five institutions who overcame these challenges and collaboratively designed, taught,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Models, Academic Achievement, Active Learning
Altman, Roberta, Ed.; Stires, Susan, Ed.; Weseen, Susan, Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2015
Each of the papers in this collection offers a much-needed antidote to the forces that disconnect educators from the places in which they teach, learn, and live. Together, they provide an opportunity to reflect on the power of place in education. This issue offers an opportunity--an invitation--to embrace all that the places both in and outside…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Fantasy, Childrens Literature, Museums
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Towns, Marcy H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
Across the United States many chemistry departments are engaged in developing assessment plans. New guidelines from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Professional Training request a department's latest self-assessment and a plan for acting on the recommendations. This manuscript describes assessment practices at institutions ranging…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Science Departments, Science Education
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Beatty, Barbara – Teachers College Record, 2012
I focus on the role of preschool intervention and developmental psychology researchers in defining the concept of the "disadvantaged child" and in designing and evaluating remedies to alleviate educational "disadvantages" in young children. I argue that preschool interventions concentrated especially on compensating for…
Descriptors: Intervention, African American Children, African American Family, Compensatory Education
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Baldwin, D.; Brady, A.; Danyluk, A.; Adams, J.; Lawrence, A. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Many undergraduate liberal arts institutions offer computer science majors. This article illustrates how quality computer science programs can be realized in a wide variety of liberal arts settings by describing and contrasting the actual programs at five liberal arts colleges: Williams College, Kalamazoo College, the State University of New York…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Program Descriptions
Nance, Molly – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
When the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, millions of Americans--many of whom were college and university students--participated in an effort that sought to improve the quality of the environment and conserve natural resources. Since then, environmental studies programs have popped up throughout the nation, creating jobs for ecologists,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, Higher Education
Berrett, Dan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Potential students hoping to gauge the quality of courses at Portland State University might be forgiven for feeling confused. On the one hand, the University Studies program, which uses interdisciplinary seminars during the first two years to develop students' core skills, has been widely praised and emulated. The Council for Higher Education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Differences
Torff, Bruce; Sessions, David – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2009
With issues of teacher quality in the spotlight, it has been suggested that teachers of mathematics and science too often lack content knowledge in the subjects they teach. Accordingly, research is needed to determine whether teacher ineffectiveness in these subjects is more frequently caused by deficiencies in content knowledge or in pedagogical…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teacher Effectiveness, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Program Effectiveness
Herbert, Doug, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2010
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Education's online newsletter "The Education Innovator" is to promote innovative practices in education; to offer features on promising programs and practices; to provide information on innovative research, schools, policies, and trends; and to keep readers informed of key Department priorities and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Money Management
Casserly, Michael; Price-Baugh, Ricki; Corcoran, Amanda; Lewis, Sharon; Uzzell, Renata; Simon, Candace; Heppen, Jessica; Leinwand, Steve; Salinger, Terry; de Mello, Victor Bandeira; Dogan, Enis; Novotny, Laura – Council of the Great City Schools, 2011
This report summarizes preliminary and exploratory research conducted by the Council of the Great City Schools and the American Institutes for Research on urban school systems participating in the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The study is one of the first large-scale analyses…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Public Schools, National Competency Tests
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Seline, Richard – Community College Journal, 2006
Five trends are emerging that will not only change the role of human capital in the United States but will also challenge the legacy system of workforce development, skills and competency-focused institutions, and assuredly, community colleges. Workforce investment boards, for example, are currently geographically constrained in environments that…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Force Development, Competition, Science and Society
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