Teaching and assessing knowledge integration in science

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5790, 2006, Pages 1049-1050

  Linn, Marcia C ^a   Lee, Hee Sun ^b   Tinker, Robert ^c   Husic, Freda ^a   Chiu, Jennifer L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Concord Consortium ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; VISUALIZATION;

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE IN GENERAL; TEACHING;

COMPREHENSION; INFORMATION SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; STUDENT; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CHEMISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHYSICS;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; CHEMISTRY; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; LEARNING; NATURAL SCIENCES; PHYSICS; TEACHING; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 33748058863     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131408     Document Type: Short Survey

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22. Based on work supported by NSF under grants 0334199 and 0455877. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. We thank O. L. Liu for help with the psychometric analysis, anonymous reviewers for helpful comments, and the TELS partners and the TELS schools for their dedication to improving science learning.