Rising human population, along with the reduction in arable land and the impacts of global
change, sets out the need for continuously improving agricultural resource use efficiency …

In the wake of the ongoing nationwide antiracist movement, the academy at large has been
reflecting on its role in society and the pursuit of social justice. Here, we examine the state of …

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education at all levels has temporarily shifted to remote
learning, hobbling an integral component of chemistry courses: the laboratory. The …

Over the past 20 years research on reform efforts aimed at the chemistry laboratory has
focused on different aspects of students' experiences including increasing content …

Scientific argumentation is a key means by which students make sense of content and
processes in inquiry-based instruction. In scientific argumentation students make a claim …

The Making Introductory Courses Real while Online (MICRO) laboratory project was
developed to meet the need for hands-on experiments, focused on topics in analytical …

Current research suggests that students often fail to focus equally on the three aspects of
scientific argumentation (cognitive, epistemic, and social) when they are given an …

The laboratory plays a crucial role in science education. However, teacher education for pre-
service teachers' design performance in the laboratory is still challenging. This study paved …

The development of proficiency in the practices used by scientists and engineers is
considered an important student outcome of laboratory instruction. We developed tasks to …

This paper describes the creation of a theme-based first quarter, of a two quarter sequence,
general chemistry laboratory course following an argument driven inquiry format and …