Whiteboard Animations for Flipped Classrooms in a Common Core Science General Education Course
5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'19), 2019 Whiteboard animation, an engaging tool for teaching and learning, consists of a series of hand-drawing illustrations with voice-over narration to explain complex and abstract ideas. Our team had produced four short whiteboard animations tailor-made for a
Ming Li, C. Lai, Wai Man Szeto
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Educators of Prospective Teachers Hesitate to Embrace Evolution due to Deficient Understanding of Science/Evolution and High Religiosity [PDF]
, 2012 Acceptance of evolution by educators of prospective teachers remains superficially studied despite their role in having mentored schoolteachers whose weak support of evolution is known.
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Toward a new “Fractals-General Science”
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2014 A recent study has shown that everywhere real systems follow common “fractals-general stacking behavior” during their change pathways (or evolutionary life cycles).
Hassen Taher Dorrah
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A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
Science, 2018 One program to rule them all Computers can beat humans at increasingly complex games, including chess and Go. However, these programs are typically constructed for a particular game, exploiting its properties, such as the symmetries of the board on which
David Silver +12 more
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Perspectives on blended learning through the on-line platform, LabLessons, for Chemistry
Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018 The effectiveness of blended learning was evaluated through the integration of an online chemistry platform, LabLessons. Two modules, Titration and Formation of Hydrogen, were designed by college mentors alongside classroom chemistry teachers to engage ...
Teeba Jihad +6 more
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Who cares about polar regions? Results from a survey of U.S. public opinion [PDF]
, 2008 What do members of the general public know about polar regions, and how much do they care? Who knows or cares? This paper explores data from the General Social Survey (GSS), which in 2006 questioned a representative sample of more than 1800 U.S.
Hamilton, Lawrence C.
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Examining the Views of Preservice Science Teachers on Creating Concept Maps
Science Education International, 2021 This study aimed to examine the views of preservice science teachers on concept map use in a General Chemistry II class. The study was conducted with 47 preservice science teachers.
Tuba Demirci, Esra Kabataş Memiş
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2021 In recent years, legal theory has developed into a generic term for multidisciplinary legal thinking. Under the heading of legal theory, scholars have explored novel pathways to legal research by using insights and methodologies from a multitude of ...
Marietta Auer
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Development of an Assessment of Student Conception of the Nature of Science [PDF]
, 2001 This article describes a study in which a series of general education and introductory science courses were assessed using a Likert-scale instrument. As universities across the country have begun to make changes in their science curricula, especially ...
Julie Libarkin
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A general method to synthesize and sinter bulk ceramics in seconds
Science, 2020 Speedy ceramic sintering Synthesizing ceramics can require heating for long times at high temperatures, making the screening of high-through-put materials challenging. C. Wang et al. developed a new ceramic-sintering technique that uses resistive heating
Chengwei Wang +21 more
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