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SimBuilding, created by the Concord Consortium at Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), allows educators to build educational games that collect learner data that can then be analyzed to assess how players learn from the game. The types of games that can be created using SimBuilding include:...

This 11-page document, provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), discusses six contextual teaching and learning (CTL) strategies, including their goals, examples, and "challenges" that help instructors implement them. When conducting CTL, instructors must identify...

This poster, from Tammy K. Baldwin and Michelle Hall Wallace, introduces an experiment on spatial ability. This experiment aimed "to evaluate change in students' spatial skills as a result of completing an earth science course." The study results show "an improvement in spatial skills for all groups...

This webinar, from the Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC), features Professor Kendrick Davis discussing key data points on STEM education and barriers to STEM success. Davis specifically focuses on underrepresented subgroups of people in STEM, including Black, Latinx, Native American,...

Collection Description The STEM Career Awareness Curriculum, developed by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), provides 6th through 12th grade educators with an accessibility-minded curriculum for STEM topics to help deaf and hard of hearing students explore STEM careers and the...

This paper, provided by the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE), discusses the disparities present between high school graduates and the academic expectations of students entering community colleges. Specifically, the paper outlines FLATE's work to help...

This web site provides a free course-evaluation tool for college instructors. This tool is intended to "gather learning-focused feedback from students." After registering users may 1. create a SALG survey to measure students' learning gains and progress towards course learning goals and 2. create a...

This paper, by Richard A. Broser and Michael K. Daugherty, professors in Industrial Technology at Illinois State University, and James D. Palmer, Technology Education Teacher at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, discusses technological literacy and attitudes towards technology in middle...

This 11-page summary, from Edmonds Community College, provides information about pedagogies suited to types of learning. This resource is part of the Professional Development Formative Assessment System (PD-FAS). PD-FAS was created by the Formative Assessment for Advanced Technician Education 2...

This 152-page dissertation, written by Rita Manco Powell, is about a study that examines fourteen women in their first year of the computer science major. The study looks at the pre-college influences that led these women to the major and the nature of their experiences with faculty, peers, and...