Integrating science and engineering practices: outcomes from a collaborative professional development

Best Practices: The Art, Science, and Engineering of Software Development

Planning and carrying out investigations: an entry to learning and to teacher professional development around NGSS science and engineering practices

The shift from science inquiry to science practices as recommended in the US reports A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas and the Next Generation Science Standards has implications for classroom/school level instruction and assessment practices and, therefore, for teacher’s professional development. We explore some of these implications and th...

The science of professional development.

In this commentary, I discuss the science of professional development. A great deal is already known about how to provide professional development that supports teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices and the factors that enhance or inhibit teachers' sustained use of the practices. I summarize the work of researchers who have achieved some success in facilitating teachers' learning...

Impact of Professional Nursing Practices on Patient/Nurse Outcomes: Testing the Essential Professional Nursing Practices Instrument.

Increasing patient and healthcare system complexity and the need to accurately measure the engagement of clinical nurses (CNs) in holistic, professional nursing practice indicates that an update to the Essentials of Magnetism instrument is needed. The purposes of this research were to critique and weight items, assess the value and psychometric properties of the newly constructed Essential Prof...

Food Science Education, Research, and Professional Development

In the Neolithic Age (10 000–3000 BC) humans transitioned from hunter–gatherer to cultivation of crops and domestication of animals for food. As they entered the Bronze Age, humans learned from practical experience about food preparation and shifted some of their plant and animal exploitations to make a variety of foods some of which could be stored for long periods. Although there was little i...