The Cooperative Learning Network part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site belongs to a group at Sheridan College in Ontario promoting college level cooperative learning (CL). Goals of the group include advocating for the educational benefits of CL, encouraging ...

The Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website contains essays and information regarding cooperative learning theory and practice. Users can follow links to workshop information, newsletters and books by David and Roger Johnson, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community Environmental Research in the Pacific Islands part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This Tellus Consultants Ltd. website is concerned with environmental awareness and protection and sustainable development in the Pacific Islands. It advocates community participation in environmental ...

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 ...

Center Nutshell Notes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This One-page Newsletter for Teaching Excellence includes tips on assessment techniques, rubrics, developing tests and the affective domain. The website provides archived newsletters beginning in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learning and Teaching in the Affective Domain part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This article addresses attitudes and attitude change in students. Several theories of attitude change are discussed, such as cognitive dissonance theory, affective-cognitive consistency, social ...

Benjamin Bloom publishes Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website provides a brief history of the development of the well-known taxonomy of educational objectives. This landmark in education was forged by a committee of college professors that created ...

Student Goal Orientation, Motivation, and Learning part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Of the factors that influence student learning, motivation is surely one of the most potent. Teachers can affect student motivation in ways that either facilitate or impede learning. This paper ...

Establishing Rapport: Personal Interaction and Learning part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This paper offers insightful methods to increase student learning by considering the relationship between students and teachers. The author provides numerous examples drawn from the educational ...

Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics: Project Report part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This pdf file is the January 2003 report for project Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics (SPIN-UP), a physics community effort organized by the National Task Force on ...

Science for All Americans part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website is the homepage for Science for All Americans, a publication that advocates science literacy by recommending essential knowledge and ways of thinking for all citizens in a world shaped ...

Learning to Think Mathematically: Problem Solving, Metacognition, and Sense-Making in Mathematics part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This 102-page PDF file addresses mathematical thinking. The goals of this publication are to outline and substantiate a broad conceptualization of what it means to think mathematically, to summarize ...