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Impacts on student understanding of scientific practices and crosscutting themes through an NGSS–designed computer-supported curriculum and instruction project

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Impacts on student understanding of scientific practices and crosscutting themes through an NGSS–designed computer-supported curriculum and instruction project. / Yoon, Susan A.; Koehler-Yom, Jessica; Anderson, Emma et al.
Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015. ed. / Oskar Lindwall; Päivi Häkkinen; Timothy Koschmann; Pierre Tchounikine; Sten Ludvigsen. Vol. 1 International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2015. p. 142-149.

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Harvard

Yoon, SA, Koehler-Yom, J, Anderson, E, Oztok, M, Klopfer, E, Schoenfeld, I, Wendel, D, Sheldon, J & Scheintaub, H 2015, Impacts on student understanding of scientific practices and crosscutting themes through an NGSS–designed computer-supported curriculum and instruction project. in O Lindwall, P Häkkinen, T Koschmann, P Tchounikine & S Ludvigsen (eds), Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015. vol. 1, International Society of the Learning Sciences, pp. 142-149, 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Gothenburg, Sweden, 7/06/15. <http://www.isls.org/cscl2015/papers/CSCL2015ProceedingsVolume1.pdf>

APA

Yoon, S. A., Koehler-Yom, J., Anderson, E., Oztok, M., Klopfer, E., Schoenfeld, I., Wendel, D., Sheldon, J., & Scheintaub, H. (2015). Impacts on student understanding of scientific practices and crosscutting themes through an NGSS–designed computer-supported curriculum and instruction project. In O. Lindwall, P. Häkkinen, T. Koschmann, P. Tchounikine, & S. Ludvigsen (Eds.), Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015 (Vol. 1, pp. 142-149). International Society of the Learning Sciences. http://www.isls.org/cscl2015/papers/CSCL2015ProceedingsVolume1.pdf

Vancouver

Yoon SA, Koehler-Yom J, Anderson E, Oztok M, Klopfer E, Schoenfeld I et al. Impacts on student understanding of scientific practices and crosscutting themes through an NGSS–designed computer-supported curriculum and instruction project. In Lindwall O, Häkkinen P, Koschmann T, Tchounikine P, Ludvigsen S, editors, Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015. Vol. 1. International Society of the Learning Sciences. 2015. p. 142-149

Author

Yoon, Susan A. ; Koehler-Yom, Jessica ; Anderson, Emma et al. / Impacts on student understanding of scientific practices and crosscutting themes through an NGSS–designed computer-supported curriculum and instruction project. Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015. editor / Oskar Lindwall ; Päivi Häkkinen ; Timothy Koschmann ; Pierre Tchounikine ; Sten Ludvigsen. Vol. 1 International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2015. pp. 142-149

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abstract = "This paper presents a curriculum intervention intentionally designed to align withNext Generation Science Standards in the high-school biology classroom. The project emphasizes learning about complex systems through an agent-based modeling tool called StarLogo Nova. Five curricular units have been developed on the topics of enzymes, ecology, protein synthesis, gene regulation, and sugar transport. In this exploratory study we were interested in understanding the extent to which students demonstrated understanding and skills in NGSS areas as they were designed. Evidence is gleaned from classroom observations andinterviews with 50 students selected from the larger population of 352 students who worked with project resources during the 2013-2014 school year. Findings revealed that students demonstrated understanding and skills in all NGSS scientific practices and crosscutting themes particularly in the areas of developing and using models, analyzing and interpreting data, cause and effect, and systems and system models.",
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