At the end of September, I visited Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN to give a seminar entitled Exploring the use of formative assessment, metacognition, and scaffolds to support students in learning biological concepts. Thank you to faculty and students in … Continue reading
Our group recently published a new manuscript in the International Journal of Science Education which describes research on how inservice elementary teachers’ life science content knowledge influences their evaluation of students’ ideas. For a pdf of this paper, click here. Sabel, J.L., Forbes, … Continue reading
Our group recently published a new manuscript in the Journal of Geoscience Education. This paper focused on how elementary teachers used formative assessment practices to evaluate students’ ideas about water and earth materials interactions. For a pdf of this paper, … Continue reading
In April, I attended and presented papers at the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) international conferences both held in Chicago, IL. Sabel, J., Forbes, C., & Zangori, L. (2015, April). … Continue reading