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CEP 930 - Educational Inquiry

Multiple sources of inquiry. Critical assessment of common assumptions about research. Relationship between data and theory. Objectivity, validity, and causal inference across research traditions. Research ethics. Relationship among researcher, researched, and audience. Question formation.

Average Grade - 3.931
Median Grade - 4.0
65 total students

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TE 330 - Science Curriculum for Young Learners (PK-3)

Science curriculum standards for grades PK-3. Instructional materials and approaches for supporting science learning.

Average Grade - 3.820
Median Grade - 4.0
104 total students

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TE 340 - Teaching and Learning of Elementary Science (PK-6)

Engaging diverse learners in grades PK-6 to make sense of the natural world. Lesson planning. Designing and using formative assessment and discourse strategies to learn about children’s ideas and resources for learning science. Supporting children’s sense-making about phenomena through engagement in scientific practices and using disciplinary ideas.

Average Grade - 3.795
Median Grade - 4.0
62 total students

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TE 403 - Teaching Science to Diverse Learners - Elementary

Engaging diverse learners in grades PK-6 to make sense of the natural world. Lesson planning, formative assessment, discourse strategies, and resources for learning science. Supporting children’s sense-making through engagement in scientific practices.

Average Grade - 3.869
Median Grade - 4.0
345 total students

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TE 407 - Teaching Subject Matter to Diverse Learners – Secondary (W)

Examining teaching as enabling diverse learners to inquire into and construct subject-specific meanings at the secondary level (7-12). Adapting subject matter to learner diversity. Exploring multiple ways diverse learners make sense of the curriculum.

Average Grade - 3.826
Median Grade - 4.0
971 total students

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TE 408 - Crafting Teaching Practices – Secondary (W)

Gathering data on learners to inform content and instructional decisions. Learning what should be taught and how it should be taught for specific disciplines at the secondary level (6-12). Teachers' multiple roles and their professional, intellectual, sociopolitical, and communal responsibilities.

Average Grade - 3.820
Median Grade - 4.0
722 total students

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TE 409 - Crafting Teaching Practices in the Secondary Teaching Minor

Deciding what should be taught for specific disciplines at the secondary level (7-12). Discipline-specific strategies for gathering data on learners to inform content and instructional decisions. Discipline-specific instructional strategies and student management and safety strategies.

Average Grade - 3.824
Median Grade - 4.0
51 total students

Latest grades from Spring 2019

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TE 501 - Internship in Teaching Diverse Learners I

Directed and evaluated internship in heterogeneous classrooms. Teaching worthwhile content to students with varied learning needs. Theoretical and field-based explorations of common teaching dilemmas.

1937 total students

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TE 502 - Internship in Teaching Diverse Learners II

Continuing internship in heterogeneous classrooms at selected schools. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Maintaining classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

1621 total students

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TE 802 - Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I

Qualitative and quantitative research methods on teaching and learning. Criteria for judging the validity and applicability of research-based knowledge. Framing educational problems worthy of inquiry. Designing and assessing studies of teaching practice.

Average Grade - 3.852
Median Grade - 4.0
1802 total students

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TE 804 - Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II

Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on teaching, learning, and educational policy. Dilemmas surrounding research on practice. Appraising and reporting results of inquiry.

Average Grade - 3.866
Median Grade - 4.0
1830 total students

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TE 808 - Inquiry into Classroom Teaching and Learning

Alternative forms of classroom inquiry to improve teaching and learning of subject matter. Social context of teaching and learning, pedagogy, and teaching effects. Social and academic outcomes for diverse learners.

Average Grade - 3.912
Median Grade - 4.0
17 total students

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TE 861B - Inquiry, Nature of Science, and Science Teaching

Inquiry and the nature of science as part of current science education reforms. Theoretical knowledge and practical skills for including inquiry and the nature of science in science instruction.

Average Grade - 3.692
Median Grade - 4.0
13 total students

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TE 931 - Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Educational Research

Concepts and assumptions underlying multiple traditions of qualitative research methods in education. Relationship between research questions and qualitative research design. Epistemology, methods, and ethical issues of ethnography, case study research, grounded theory, oral history and discourse analysis. Criteria for appraising and critiquing qualitative research designs, claims, and evidence,

Average Grade - 3.917
Median Grade - 4.0
48 total students

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TE 934 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Educational Research

Concepts and assumptions underlying quantitative research methods in education. Relationship between research questions and quantitative research design. Issues of inference, reliability, and validity. Application of statistical analysis to contemporary issues in education. Criteria for appraising and critiquing quantitative research designs, claims, and evidence. Quantitative research ethics.

Average Grade - 3.737
Median Grade - 4.0
58 total students

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TE 936 - Topics in Research on Teaching and Learning Science

Research on teaching and learning in science. Teacher learning, student learning, and assessment of teaching and/or learning.

Average Grade - 3.883
Median Grade - 4.0
30 total students

Latest grades from Fall 2020

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