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Modeling Instruction: The Impact of Professional Development on Instructional Practices

Science Educator, 2014

AbstractModeling Instruction holds the potential for transforming science instruction and improvi... more AbstractModeling Instruction holds the potential for transforming science instruction and improving student achievement. Key to the success of Modeling Instruction, however, is the fidelity of implementation of its curriculum. This qualitative study examined the impact of Modeling Instruction professional development on participating teachers' instructional practices. Through classroom observations and interviews, participants provided insight into challenges that impact fidelity of implementation. Participants for whom the professional development had no impact shared an additive view of the professional development along with external challenges that represented a misalignment between participants' goals and those of Modeling Instruction. Participants within the medium impact group held either transformative or additive views of the professional development. These participants described external challenges, which were closely related to their internal challenges. These int...

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Faculty Taking Charge of Change: Navigating Shifts in State Policy for Teacher Education Programs

Qualitative Methodologies in Chemical Education Research: Challenging Comfortable Paradigms

Journal of Chemical Education, 1994

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Effect of clickers versus online homework on students' long-term retention of general chemistry course material

Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2012

Although the benefits of clickers for monitoring student understanding during lectures are well-e... more

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Chapter 10. Problem Solving in the Chemistry Teaching Laboratory: Is This Something That Happens?

Problems and Problem Solving in Chemistry Education, 2021

There is much discussion surrounding the purpose and usefulness of the academic chemistry laborat... more There is much discussion surrounding the purpose and usefulness of the academic chemistry laboratory even as it remains a mainstay of most undergraduate chemistry programs. Allowing students to practice problem-solving skills beyond the algorithmic mathematical sort is one of the suggested purposes that laboratory could serve. This purpose is a departure from the procedural-based skills training often used to justify engaging students in laboratory (learning to titrate, for example). While technical skills are important, if part of what we are doing in undergraduate chemistry is preparing students for research, then somewhere in the curriculum there should be opportunities to practice solving problems that are open ended and laboratory-based. In this chapter, we recap the history of academic laboratory practice in the field of chemistry and review its current state to better understand how problem solving is or might be integrated into this important activity. Further, we consider how different aspects of laboratory approaches (including the purpose of doing labs, the instructional format of the lab, the costs associated with hands-on and virtual labs) either positively or negatively impact problem solving. We also describe the impact of practice on the quality of students’ problem-solving skills.

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