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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 - 3.971
Median Grade - 4.0
53 total students

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TE 204 - Engaging Elementary Learners in Science: Culture and Equity

Science curriculum standards for grades 3-6. Culture and equity in science. Eliciting children and community interests and resources. Building positive science identities for diverse learners in classrooms.

Average Grade - 3.759
Median Grade - 4.0
257 total students

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TE 332 - Science Curriculum for Upper Elementary Learners (3-6)

Science curriculum standards for grades 3-6. Instructional materials and approaches for supporting science learning.

Average Grade - 3.744
Median Grade - 4.0
45 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 - 3.790
Median Grade - 4.0
1714 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 - 3.851
Median Grade - 4.0
1811 total students

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TE 901 - Proseminar in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education I

Purposes, history, structure, reform and consequences of the K-12 educational enterprise. Teaching practice, student learning, curricula, school organization, and educational policy. Theories and interpretations of educational systems. Schooling experiences of minority populations. Consideration of topics in and outside of the U.S.

Average Grade - 3.962
Median Grade - 4.0
13 total students

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TE 910 - Youth Language and Literacy in Schools and Communities

Contemporary research, theory, and practice critically situate school and beyond school language and literacy learning in the lives of youth and their communities. Focus on social justice-oriented work with youth of color and other young people marginalized by systemic inequalities. Increasing understanding of the oral and written communication many young people engage in through their participation in youth cultures. A study of race, class, gender identity, sexuality, ability, and citizenship status as they are lived through languages and literacies by youth and their communities.

Average Grade - 3.964
Median Grade - 4.0
14 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 - 3.933
Median Grade - 4.0
60 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 - 3.808
Median Grade - 4.0
13 total students

Latest grades from Fall 2014

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