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START – evaluating a novel assessment of consultant readiness in paediatrics:...
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) incepted a new end-of-training assessment in 2012, known as START, the Speciality Trainee Assessment of Readiness for... -
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We explored the impact a new quantitative biology course for biology majors had on their ability and confidence to utilize hypothesis testing. Students currently in the... -
Embracing a Metic Lens for Community-based Participatory Research in Technica...
This article responds to recent calls for social justice-oriented work in Technical and professional communication, detailing moments from a participatory photovoice project... -
Effectiveness of PhET Simulations and YouTube Videos to Improve the Learning ...
Effective teaching of physics requires the use of well-designed and diversified instructional tools such as multimedia throughout the teaching and learning process. The main... -
Staging science with young people: bringing science closer to students throug...
Although efforts are being made to bring science closer to secondary school students, science is still mostly perceived within stereotypic frameworks, hindering students’... -
Retention of acquired argumentation skills and nature of science conceptions
The study aimed to investigate the retention of acquired argumentation and NOS conceptions among grade 10 students three months after the treatment. Thirty-six grade 10 students... -
Students as partners: peer-leading in an undergraduate mathematics course
This study examines undergraduate student attitudes to acting as peer-leaders in Applied Mathematics computing workshops. Through the use of data from end-of-trimester surveys... -
Differing perceptions concerning research misconduct between China and Flande...
In the field of research integrity, there has been increasing interest in the influence of culture on research misconduct. Studies have suggested that the violation of research... -
Moving beyond the model as a copy problem: investigating the utility of teach...
An important research objective in modelling instruction is defining what students should learn about the model-referent relationship, as when unguided, they tend to errantly... -
Personal Stories Can Shift Climate Change Beliefs and Risk Perceptions: The M...
Sharing personal stories of how climate change is already harming people is a promising communication strategy to engage diverse and even skeptical audiences. Using two... -
Second Chance Grading: An Equitable, Meaningful, and Easy-to-Implement Gradin...
This article describes the synthesis of the research on mastery grading, growth mindsets, and testing for learning to produce a new grading system – Second Chance Grading. The... -
Science teachers’ use of argumentation instructional model: linking PCK of ar...
This study aimed to explore the relationship between science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of argumentation, epistemological beliefs, and classroom practices.... -
Medical education from the point of view of medical students: Results from fo...
Medical curricula have historically been designed in a top-down approach, usually excluding students. While Delphi panels have been used as a tool for medical education... -
How do students become experts? An in-depth study on the development of domai...
The need to develop clean-energy storage systems, harvesting technologies, and new functional materials are but a few of the many contemporary challenges in the domain of... -
Understanding factors that affect the prior knowledge of deaf and hard of hea...
The reading comprehension levels of students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) are low compared to those of their hearing peers. One possible reason for this low reading... -
"Figure 4, Peyote": Comics and Graphic Narrative in Anarchist Cookbooks, 1971...
Journalists, politicians, and law enforcement professionals have linked anarchist cookbooks to various crimes including bank robberies, hijackings, terrorist attacks, and mass... -
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Our traditional model of calculus instruction at a large public research university emphasized factual knowledge and procedural fluency with few realistic applications, leaving... -
"Are You Authorized to Work in the U.S.?" Investigating "Inclusive" Practices...
This paper studies the language of job descriptions in rhetoric and technical and professional communication to explore how this language might be exclusionary of international... -
Using simple algebraic concepts to understand chemical composition problems
Problems involving the composition of mixtures are common in chemical practice and are thus part of introductory Chemistry courses at the early undergraduate level. However,... -
A novel approach to measuring student engagement while using an augmented rea...
Augmented reality (AR) sandboxes are useful tools in helping students develop a three-dimensional understanding of topographic maps and landforms. Research on the AR sandbox...
