Items tagged as related to Research on Learning, but not (yet?) tagged as related to the synthesis topics.
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Progression of Children's Ideas and Understanding About Microbial Activity part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This report addresses the need for science education research regarding children's ideas about microorganisms. The author offers a brief introduction to the history of the subject and explains ...
The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This essay describes the problems that can develop while working with multiple hypotheses and presents ideas for solving these problems. Topics discussed include premature theory development, the ...
Children's misconceptions about weather: A review of the literature part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This paper from Project ALERT reports a synthesis of the existing research about children's misconceptions relating to weather, climate and the atmosphere. The scientifically accepted interpretations ...
Problem Based Learning part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from the Allegany College of Maryland describes a program that will transform the developmental mathematics curriculum to one that meets the students' professional needs. The site also ...
Journal of Chemical Education: About Teaching with Problems and Case Studies part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This feature column from the Journal of Chemical Education provides teachers and professors with real-world scenarios that involve chemistry and encourage students to appreciate how chemistry and ...
Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Mount Holyoke College helps students recognize, evaluate, and use forms of quantitative argument. The course introduces basic concepts from statistics and calculus through three case ...
Psychomotor Domain Taxonomy part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Pennsylvania State University's "Teaching and Learning with Technology" program presents an overview of Bloom's Psychomotor Domain Taxonomy, which is characterized by progressive ...
Minnesota Lake Monitoring Program part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site offers information on the Citizen Lake Monitoring Program (CLMP). CLMP combines the technical resources of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the volunteer efforts of ...
Teaching to Higher Levels of Thinking: Harnessing the Affective Domain part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Idaho State University describes taxonomies of the cognitive domain, research on thinking models, and taxonomies of the affective domain. The site explains how appealing to the ...
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 ...