A Fractal Thinker Looks at Learning, Observing and Assessment part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site describes a way to reorganize available information on materials, processes and rates to make teaching part of a more understandable system interrelated in space and time. Fractals may ...

The Knowledge Survey: A Tool for All Reasons part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website discusses knowledge surveys, which offer a powerful way to achieve course organization and enact instructional alignment. Surveys serve as powerful assessment tools that provide a ...

The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Case Collection part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website presents educational case studies in a variety of disciplines. Featured case studies are designed to be used in teaching, applying science concepts to public policy, legal disputes, and ...

Motivating Students part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This chapter from the book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is a great place to start for ideas and tips about increasing student motivation in your classes. The author presents a handy ...

Development and Evaluation of Where are We?: Map-skills Software and Curriculum part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Improvements in the instructional materials used in the prototype version of the Where are We program were accomplished through formative evaluation. These improvements include replacement of ...

Understanding by Design part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Wiggins and McTighe propose a multifaceted approach to education, with six 'facets' of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, practical framework for designing ...

The Expert Educator part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This education textbook includes chapters on the basics of education, multiple intelligences, a variety of teaching strategies (such as case studies, role-playing, and lecturing), the use of media, ...

Measuring student understanding of geological time part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper includes a copy and an assessment of the GeoTAT, a test of students' aptitude to understand geologic time, particularly their ability to work out stratigraphic relationships and to make ...

Teaching Physics with Physics Suite part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book aims to help educators learn to be more effective at teaching physics. It describes a variety of tools for improving both teaching and learning, including new kinds of homework and exam ...

Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book looks at research into human learning and educational measurement and explains how these fields can form the basis for new approaches to assessment. Some of these new approaches are ...