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Cognitive Science Casebook: researcher-constructed curriculum materials embedding three cognitive science principles

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Description

The Cognitive Science Casebook is a researcher-constructed supplement of approximately 500 pages provided to teachers in the CS treatment condition alongside summer professional development. It provided "step-by-step lesson plans, including detailed explanations, warm-ups, activi- ties, and PowerPoint slides" aligned to the Holt Science and Technology units (Cells, Inside the Restless Earth, Introduction to Matter), and was "to be used in place of the districts' planning guides." Interviewed teachers credited it with pacing and streamlined planning.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teachers received accompanying summer PD on how and why the three CS principles should be integrated into the curriculum during classroom lessons

Constraints

  • The Casebook was specific to the three Holt curriculum units studied and aligned to district curricular guidelines

Target Learners

  • middle school science students in seventh and eighth grade

Learning Goals

  • science achievement on Cells, Inside the Restless Earth, and Introduction to Matter units

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Laura M. Desimone, Kirsten Lee Hill. (2017). Inside the Black Box: Examining Mediators and Moderators of a Middle School Science Intervention. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373717697842
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title Cognitive Science Casebook: researcher-constructed curriculum materials embedding three cognitive science principles
description The Cognitive Science Casebook is a researcher-constructed supplement of approximately 500 pages provided to teachers in the CS treatment condition alongside summer professional development.
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