The construct of active learning permeates undergraduate education in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but despite its prevalence, the construct means …

Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate
Science and Engineering | The National Academies Press Skip to main content Navigate to Help …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from
their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that support conceptual …

This report comes at a time when our nation and our species face profound challenges.
Ensuring adequate food, water, energy, and mineral resources to support a growing human …

Transform your mathematics instruction with this rich collection of formative assessment
techniques Award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey …

We present the results of a national study on the teaching and learning of astronomy as
taught in general education, non-science-major, introductory astronomy courses. Nearly …

Teaching and learning astronomy in the 21st century Page 1 You’re lecturing to your
introductory college astronomy class about Newton’s law of gravitation. You’ve carefully explained …

Although astronomy topics have been included in K-12 education research for decades,
astronomy education research as a field of discipline-based education research is relatively …

Public understanding of climate and climate change is of broad societal importance.
However, misconceptions regarding reasons for the seasons abound amongst students …