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Professional development aligned with AP Chemistry curriculum: Promoting science practices and facilitating enduring conceptual understanding
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The recent revisions to the advanced placement (AP) chemistry curriculum promote deep conceptual understanding of chemistry content over more rote memorization of facts and algorithmic problem solving.…
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Ellen Yezierski, Dillon Frank, Nicholas Spurgus, and Justin Pratt, Miami University (Project: Further Development…
Fostering High School Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Argumentation Performance in Science through Quality Talk Discussions
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The purpose of our quasi‐experimental study was to examine the effectiveness of Quality Talk Science, a professional development model and intervention, in fostering changes in teachers’ and students’ discourse practices…
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In this study, we examined the relevance of CI in biochemical contexts and first explored the ways in which practicing biochemists consider CI relevant in their work.
The solving of problems in…
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Adam Schafer, Ellen Yezierski, and Victoria Borland, Miami University…
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These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual International Conference of NARST in Baltimore, MD.
Morales-Doyle, D., Frausto, A., Chappell, M.J., Childress-Price, T.L., Collins, D.A., Levingston, A.,…
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These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the National Science Teachers Association, St. Louis, Missouri.
Morales-Doyle, D., Frausto, A., Childress Price, T., Chappell, M., &…
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These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual International Conference of NARST in Baltimore, MD.
Frausto, A., Morales-Doyle, D., Fitch, A., Hatch, S., & Nagy, K. (2019, April). Toward Youth…
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In this article, authors examined classroom videos of nine experienced teachers of elementary, middle, and high school science, aiming to create a model of FA enactment that is useful to teachers.…
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DRK-12 Presenters:
Mavreen Rose Tuvilla*, Purdue University
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Chemistry Critical Friendships: Investigating Chemistry-Specific Discourse within a Domain-General Discussion of Best Practices for Inquiry Assessments
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Presented in this paper are the results from analyzing a discussion between five high school chemistry teachers as they generated a set of best practices for inquiry assessments.
High school chemistry…
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Collection of 158 free interactive math and science simulations from University of Colorado Boulder. Engage students in math and science practices, and virtual labs, during remote learning. Find over 2,000 sim-based…
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This article describes the 4‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework. Developed by a task force of ESA members who solicited input from a variety of groups, the framework takes a fresh and innovative approach toward…
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KatieMarie Magnone, Meng Yang Matthew Wu, and Ellen Yezierski, Miami University…
Investigating High School Chemistry Teachers’ Assessment Item Generation Processes for a Solubility Lab
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Designing high school chemistry assessments is a complex and difficult task. Although prior studies about assessment have offered teachers guidelines and standards as support to generate quality assessment items, little is…
Investigating How Assessment Design Guides High School Chemistry Teachers’ Interpretation of Student Responses to a Planned, Formative Assessment
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This study seeks to better understand what teachers notice when interpreting assessment results and how the design of the assessment may influence teachers’ patterns of noticing. The study described herein investigates…
Visualizing Chemistry Teachers’ Enacted Assessment Design Practices to Better Understand Barriers to “Best Practices”
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In this paper, the relationship between high school chemistry teachers’ self-generated “best practices” for developing formative assessments and the assessments they implement in their courses are examined…
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A set of NGSS-aligned investigations for each discipline (physics, chemistry, biology) designed to introduce and scaffold engagement in science practices and build an understanding of the interplay between experimental…
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Interview with Steve Roderick about helping teachers on the InquirySpace project bring more authentic science experiences to their classes.
The Concord Consortium. (2021). Innovator Interview: Steve…
Exploring Adaptations of the VisChem Approach: Advancements and Anchors toward Particle-Level Explanations
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have been imperative for informing many facets of the chemistry education research field, one of which includes the professional development (PD) of high school teachers. While…
Pedagogical Chemistry Sensemaking: A Novel Conceptual Framework to Facilitate Pedagogical Sensemaking in Model-based Lesson Planning
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Researchers have typically identified and characterized teachers’ knowledge bases (e.g., pedagogical content knowledge and subject matter knowledge) in an effort to improve enacted instructional strategies. As shown by the…
Remote Chemistry Teacher Professional Development Delivery: Enduring Lessons for Programmatic Redesign
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COVID-19 has thrust educators into a period of uncertainty, complicating conventional ways of teaching and learning. We suspect that the pandemic has magnified the challenges that some high school teachers already…