Department of Curriculum and Instruction: Recent submissions
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Library Steam Project Timeline
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Lesson Plan: What is Renewable Energy and How Can We Use It for Our Future Energy Use?
(2023-04-07)This lesson focuses on renewable energy and potential future energy sources. Through an interactive read-aloud, demonstration, and discussion, students examine how structures such as a wind-powered gravity battery can store ... -
Lesson Plan: Create a Visual Representation of an Object's Position, Direction, and Speed
(2023-04-07)This lesson focuses on the engineering design process and creative problem-solving. Students identify and describe the changes in position, direction, and speed of an object when acted upon by unbalanced forces in order ... -
Lesson Plan: Create a Terrarium and Marshmallow Tower to Observe, Plan, and Execute a Design
(2023-04-07)This lesson focuses on forces and motion. Students apply creativity and experimentation to describe the movement of matter among animals, plants, decomposers, and the environment. To summarize their learning, students craft ... -
Lesson Plan: What are the different forms of energy?
(2023-04-07)This lesson focuses on forms of energy. Students identify forms of energy and give examples of how each type of energy works. Students summarize their learning by completing a series of centers focused on different forms ... -
Are you African or African-American? Exploring the Identity Experiences of Female STEM Students Born in Africa Now Living in America
(2018)Amongst the participants of a qualitative study of Black female students in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) were two individuals who were born on the African continent. These students moved to the ... -
“Do we teach subjects or students?” Analyzing science and mathematics teacher conversations about issues of equity in the classroom
(WILEY, 2019-05)Teachers involved in a Master's level course in diversity participated in virtual, synchronous, anonymized discussions around issues of ethnic and racial diversity, gender, and stereotypes that could impact their students’ ... -
How to Be an Online Student: Success Tips
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Deconstructing the Syllabus: Re-envisioning Digital Learning with the Shift to Canvas
(Region 11 Leveraging Canvas Conference, 2019-06-13)A group of four faculty members and a librarian present ideas for integrating innovative tools and ideas into Canvas for student in higher education (The University of Texas at Arlington), with an overarching focus on ... -
The Process of Becoming: Identity Development of African American Female Science and Mathematics Preservice Teachers
(Taylor & Francis OnlineDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction , The University of Texas at Arlington, 2018-03-01)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: A group of 3 African American female preservice science and science teaching students majoring in a field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) ... -
Developing a List and a Rubric of Interactive Open Education Resources (OER) for Science Teacher Candidates of Diverse Students
(UIKTENDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas Arlington, August 201)To find the interactive OER (OER) that fits to teach diverse students in science classrooms, this study designs a selection rubric and a list of OER and asks fifty science teacher-candidates to use them for their teaching ... -
Navigating STEM-Worlds: Applying a Lens of Intersectionality to the Career Identity Development of Underrepresented Female Students of Color
(EmeraldDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2017)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Knowing that female students of color are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is not enough. This paper will discuss the ... -
The Trouble With Interpreting Statistically Nonsignificant Effect Sizes in Single-Study Investigations
(DigitalCommons@WayneStateWayne State University PressDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 5-1-2003)In this commentary, we offer a perspective on the problem of authors reporting and interpreting effect sizes in the absence of formal statistical tests of their chanceness. The perspective reinforces our previous ... -
The Not-So-Quiet Revolution: Cautionary Comments on the Rejection of Hypothesis Testing in Favor of a “Causal” Modeling Alternative
(Digital Commons@WayneStateWayne State University PressDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 11-1-2010)Rodgers (2010) recently applauded a revolution involving the increased use of statistical modeling techniques. It is argued that such use may have a downside, citing empirical evidence in educational psychology that ... -
On the Roles of External Knowledge Representations in Assessment Design
(Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative, Caroline A. & Peter S. Lynch School of Education, Boston CollegeDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, January 20)People use external knowledge representations (KRs) to create, identify, depict, transform, store, share, and archive information. Learning to work with KRs is central to becoming proficient in virtually every discipline. ... -
Illuminating the Effects of Dynamic Lighting on Student Learning
(SageDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, April-June)Light is universally understood as essential to the human condition. Yet light quality varies substantially in nature and in controlled environments leading to questions of which artificial light characteristics facilitate ... -
The Paradox of Increasing both Enrollment and Graduation Rates : Acknowledging Elephants in the Ivory Tower
(Sciedu PressDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)The argument is made that increasing enrollments and graduation rates cannot occur while maintaining academic standards. Several U.S. universities are attempting to increase their enrollments to counter the financial ... -
The supporting effects of high luminous conditions on grade 3 oral reading fluency scores
(SpringerPlusDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)The universality of the impact of daylight is a common thread that defines humanity. Day light affects us in a variety of ways –visually, psychologically and biologically. Artificial lighting research has explored ways ... -
A characterization of the Burr Type III and Type XII distributions through the method of percentiles and the Spearman correlation
(Taylor & FrancisDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)A characterization of Burr Type III and Type XII distributions based on the method of percentiles (MOP) is introduced and contrasted with the method of (conventional) moments (MOM) in the context of estimation and fitting ... -
Using a Generalized Linear Mixed Model Approach to Explore the Role of Age, Motor Proficiency, and Cognitive Styles in Children's Reach Estimation Accuracy
(Sage PublishingDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)The purpose was to use a multi-level statistical technique to analyze how children's age, motor proficiency, and cognitive styles interact to affect accuracy on reach estimation tasks via Motor Imagery and Visual Imagery. ...