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Commissioned Papers
(By Project)

Review of the NOAA Education Program

 

1.

Review of NOAA Education Program Evaluation Reports

Ann Brackett

     

2.

Logic models of NOAA education programs and implications for restructuring

Bill Clune

     

3.

Learner Diversity in Earth System Science

Roger Levine, Raquel González, and Carmen Martínez-Sussmann

     

4.

Children and adults’ understanding of ocean and climate sciences

Lynn Tran

     

Learning Science in Informal Environments

 

1.

How Might Native Science Inform “Informal Science Learning?”

Bryan Brayboy and Angelina Castagno

     

2.

Diverse Learning and Learner Diversity in “Informal” Science Learning Environments

Shirley Brice Heath

     

3.

Assessing Learning in Informal Science Contexts

Michael Brody, Art Bangert and Justin Dillon

     

4.

Evaluation of Learning in Informal Learning Environments

Institute for Learning Innovation

     

5.

Lifelong Learning and Technology

Casey Lindberg, Edwin Carstensen, and Laura Carstensen

     

6.

Interest and Motivation in Informal Science Learning

K. Ann Renninger

     

7.

Media-based Learning Science in Informal Environments

Paul Rockman, Kristen Bass, Jennifer Borse

     

8.

Informal Science Learning in Afterschool Settings: A Natural Fit?

Sarah Schwartz and Gil Noam

     

Science Learning, K-8

 

1.

Formative Assessment in K-8 Science Education: A Conceptual Review

Erin Marie Furtak

     

2.

Informal Science Learning Environments: A Review of Research to Inform K-8 Schooling

Kirsten M. Ellenbogen and Reed Stevens

     

3.

Sociocultural Approaches to Learning Science in Classrooms

Ellice Forman and Wendy Sink

     

4.

The Development of Scientific Reasoning Skills: What Psychologist Contribute to an Understanding of Elementary Science Learning

Corinne Zimmerman

High School Science Laboratories

 

1.

The School Science Laboratory: Considerations of Learning, Technology, and Scientific Practice

Philip Bell

     

2.

The HS Lab Experience: Reconsidering the Role of Evidence, Explanation and the Language of Science

Richard Duschl

     

3.

Laboratories in Science Education: Understanding the History and Nature of Science

Jane Maienschein

     

4.

The Role of Practical Work in the Teaching and Learning of Science

Robin Millar

NASA’s Elementary and Secondary Education Program

 

1.

Summary and Critique of Selected Evaluations of NASA Educational Programs

Frances Lawrenz

   

 

2.

Alignment of the NASA Explorer School Model with Models for School Improvement and Reform

Susan Mundry

   

 

3.

A Review of the Literature and the INSPIRE Model STEM in Out-of-School Time

National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Wellesley College

 

Title

Author

     

1.

Linking Evidence and Learning Goals

Susan Singer

     

2.

White Paper on Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education

Jeffrey Froyd

     

3.

Practitioner Research as a Way of Knowing: A Case Study of Teacher Learning in Improving Undergraduates’ Concept Acquisition of Evolution by Natural Selection

Bruce Grant

     

4.

Learning Goals in Undergraduate STEM Education and Evidence for Achieving Them

Jose M. Mestre

     

5.

Chemistry in Context: Goals, Evidence, and Gaps (A White Paper)

Cathy Middlecamp

     

6.

Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education

Jeanne L. Narum

     

 

Title

Author

1.

Effectiveness of Problem-based learning

David Gijbels

     

2.

Case Pedagogy in Undergraduate STEM: Research We Have; Research We Need

Mary Lundeberg

     

3.

Use of Complex Problems in Teaching Physics

Tom Foster

     

4.

Concept Inventories in Higher Education Science

Julie Libarkin

     

5.

Concept Inventories in Engineering Education

Teri Reed-Rhoads

     

6.

Identifying And Addressing Student Conceptual Difficulties: An Example From Introductory Physics

Paula Heron

     

7.

The Rensselaer Studio Model for Learning and Teaching: What Have We Learned?

Karen Cummings

     

8.

The SCALE-UP Project: A Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs

Robert Beichner

     

9.

Tracking student problem-solving strategies in online PBL case discussions: a method to target interventions to individuals and groups most in need of help.

Marcy Osgood

     

10.

Less talk, more action: Active Learning in Introductory Geoscience courses

David McConnell

     

11.

The Role of Undergraduate Research in Student Retention, Academic Engagement, and the Pursuit of Graduate Education

Sandy Gregerman

     

12.

Evaluation of the Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education (CASPiE) model of undergraduate research

Donald Wink
and Gabriela Weaver

     

13.

The Impact of Future Faculty Professional Development in Teaching on STEM Undergraduate Education: A Case Study about the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Donald Gillian-Daniel

     

14.

The Workshop for New Faculty in Physics and Astronomy

Kenneth Krane

     

15.

Working with the Discipline – Developing a Supportive Environment for Education

Cathy Manduca

     

16.

Barriers and Promises in STEM Reform

Melissa Dancy
and Charles Henderson

     

17.

Linking Evidence and Promising Practices in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Undergraduate Education: A Status Report

James Fairweather

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