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Design Considerations for Exam Wrappers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Tomorrow's Professor posting looks at the use of exam wrappers as a way to help students improve their performance on exams. Exam wrappers are short activities that direct students to ...
Ten Rules of Good (and Bad) Studying part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Tomorrow's Professor posting is an excerpt from A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) (2014). It summarizes excellent tips on good (and bad) ...
A Model for the Development and Implementation of Field Trips as an Integral Part of the Science Curriculum part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In this paper, Orion summarizes what we know from the literature about designing effective field trips for high school students, including the challenges and barriers to success. The model he ...
Subject: Education, Geoscience
Scientific Argumentation in Earth System Science Education part of SERC Web Resource Collection
We investigate the merit of including deliberate instruction on argumentation and debate in an undergraduate Earth system science course. We examine sample student evaluations of arguments ...Subject: Education, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website, from the US Department of Energy, provides a history of energy use in the US from 1635-2000. It includes several figures showing how energy sources and consumption have changed through ...
Transfer of learning: Issues and research agenda part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a report on a workshop held at NSF in 2002. It begins with a broad introduction to the transfer of knowledge, discussing why it is both central and timely to the country's educational ...Subject: Education
Metacognition: An Overview part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author reviews metacognition, metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation, the distinction between cognitive and metacognitive strategies, the relationship between metacognition and ...Subject: Education
Overview of Learning And Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Extensive research, development, and testing led to the creation of this statistically valid and reliable tool for the diagnosis of study skills. The LASSI is a 10-scale, 60-item assessment of ...Subject: Education
Teaching Metacognition part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This webpage features resources associated with the 2008 Educause Learning Initiative annual meeting session on Teaching Metacognition. It includes links to Marsha Lovett's powerpoint slides and ...Subject: Education
Teaching with Clickers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This posting on the Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List is an excerpt from a longer article, Teaching with Clickers, by Erping Zhu, coordinator of instructional technology at the Center for ...Subject: Education