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Visionlearning Library part of Web Resource Collection
At Visionlearning, we've developed a set of peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in ...Resource Type: Assessments, On line, Pedagogic Resources:Collection, Pedagogic Resources
Cosmochemistry Illustrated part of Web Resource Collection
This website offers short PowerPoint presentations that provide extraterrestrial examples of terrestrial topics. Longer presentations are also available for anyone wishing to go into more ...Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Collection, Overview/Summary, Audio/Visual:Collections, Images/Illustrations
How some college students represent their understandings of the nature of scientific theories part of Print Resource Collection
This study explores college students' representations about the nature of theories during their enrollment in a large astronomy course with instruction designed to address a number of nature of ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources
Helping students understand challenging topics in science through ontology training part of Print Resource Collection
Article abstract: Chi (2005) proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute to these concepts an ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Research Results
Word usage misconceptions among first-year university physics students part of Print Resource Collection
This study compared students' perceived understanding of commonplace physics terminology with their actual understanding of it. First-year university physics students were presented with a list ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources
Teaching for conceptual change: Using status as a metacognitive tool part of Print Resource Collection
Research into students' conception often presents those conceptions as problematic for the teacher, something to be exposed and then overcome through instruction. This article argues for a ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Research Results
Toward Computer-Based Support of Meta-Cognitive Skills: A Computational Framework to Coach Self-Explanation part of Print Resource Collection
Abstract: We present a computational framework designed to improve learning from examples by supporting self-explanation -- the process of clarifying and making more complete to oneself the solution ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Research Results
ThinkerTools: Causal Models, Conceptual Change, and Science Education part of Print Resource Collection
This article describes an approach that enables sixth graders (i.e., 11- and 12-year-olds) to develop a conceptual model that embodies the principles underlying Newtonian mechanics, and to apply ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Research Results
Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics: Project Report part of 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 ...Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Research Results
Inquiry, Modeling, and Metacognition: Making Science Accessible to All Students part of Print Resource Collection
This paper reports on the 1994 trials of the ThinkerTools Inquiry Curriculum which was designed to teach metacognitive skills to middle school science students. Despite sampling weaknesses, findings ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Research Results