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Do Simulated Teaching Experiences Impact Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Ability to Facilitate Argumentation-Focused Discussions in Mathematics and Science? by Mikeska, Jamie N., Howell, Heather, Kinsey, Devon

“…Recently scholars have advocated for using teachers’ practice as a site for teacher learning. The recent proliferation of online, digital spaces, including…”
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Examining elementary science teachers' responses to assessments tasks designed to measure their content knowledge for teaching about matter and its interactions by Mikeska, Jamie N., Cisterna, Dante, Lakhani, Heena, Bookbinder, Allison K., Myers, David L., Vaval, Luronne

“…Despite the importance of developing elementary science teachers' content knowledge for teaching (CKT), there are limited assessments that have been designed…”
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Examining the usability and viability of using a simulated classroom environment to prepare preservice science teachers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic by Mikeska, Jamie N., Howell, Heather, Kinsey, Devon

“…Educator preparation programs experienced extreme challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many universities and K-12 schools moved to fully online or…”
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Simulations as practice‐based spaces to support elementary teachers in learning how to facilitate argumentation‐focused science discussions by Mikeska, Jamie N., Howell, Heather

“…In order to deepen students' understanding of natural phenomenon and how scientific knowledge is constructed, it is critical that science teachers learn how to…”
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Eliciting Learner Knowledge: Enabling Focused Practice through an Open-Source Online Tool by Thompson, Meredith, Leonard, Griffin, Mikeska, Jamie N., Lottero-Perdue, Pamela S., Maltese, Adam V., Pereira, Giancarlo, Hillaire, Garron, Waldron, Rick, Slama, Rachel, Reich, Justin

“…Eliciting and interpreting students’ ideas are essential skills in teaching, yet pre-service teachers (PSTs) rarely have adequate opportunities to develop…”
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Developing and using a scalable assessment to measure preservice elementary teachers' content knowledge for teaching about matter by Castellano, Katherine E., Mikeska, Jamie N.

“…There is strong agreement in science teacher education of the importance of teachers' content knowledge for teaching (CKT), which includes their subject matter…”
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Toward coherence in curriculum, instruction, and assessment: A review of learning progression literature by Jin, Hui, Mikeska, Jamie N., Hokayem, Hayat, Mavronikolas, Elia

“…To evaluate the recent advances in learning progression (LP) research and identify future research directions, we reviewed LP literature from 2006 to 2018…”
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Approximations of practice as a framework for understanding authenticity in simulations of teaching by Howell, Heather, Mikeska, Jamie N.

“…Human-in-the-loop simulation is a valuable tool that can support novice teachers in learning how to lead classroom discussions. We ground our use of simulation…”
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Using Videos as a Tool for Self-Reflection: The Nature of In-Service Elementary Teachers’ Reflections on Their Ability to Facilitate Argumentation-Focused Discussions in a Simulated Classroom by Mikeska, Jamie N., Lottero-Perdue, Pamela S., Kinsey, Devon

“…Using videos as tools for reflection has a strong grounding in the research literature. Traditionally, these videos provide representations of K-12 students…”
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How preservice and in‐service elementary teachers engage student avatars in scientific argumentation within a simulated classroom environment by Mikeska, Jamie N., Lottero‐Perdue, Pamela S.

“…Engaging students in scientific argumentation is a hallmark of high‐quality science instruction. Despite the importance of this practice, it is not a…”
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Using Performance Tasks within Simulated Environments to Assess Teachers' Ability to Engage in Coordinated, Accumulated, and Dynamic (CAD) Competencies by Mikeska, Jamie N., Howell, Heather, Straub, Carrie

“…The demand for assessments of competencies that require complex human interaction is steadily growing as we move toward a focus on twenty-first century skills…”
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Authenticity perceptions in virtual environments by Mikeska, Jamie N, Howell, Heather

“…Purpose This paper aims to examine three distinct aspects of authenticity that pre-service teachers (PSTs) experience when they engage with virtual classroom…”
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Elementary Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Assessment Tasks that Measure Content Knowledge for Teaching about Matter by Cisterna, Dante, Bookbinder, Allison K., Mikeska, Jamie N., Lakhani, Heena R.

“…Developing knowledge about science instruction is critical for preservice teachers. This study explores how 79 elementary preservice teachers perceive the…”
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Examining Variability in Elementary Science Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge About Phase Change: Implications for Teacher Development and Assessment by Mikeska, Jamie N., Brockway, Debra, Ciofalo, Joseph, Jin, Hui, Ritter, Suzanne

“…To support science teachers in learning how to engage in ambitious teaching practices, teacher educators, professional development facilitators, and…”
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Using classroom observations to evaluate science teaching: Implications of lesson sampling for measuring science teaching effectiveness across lesson types by Mikeska, Jamie N., Holtzman, Steven, McCaffrey, Daniel F., Liu, Shuangshuang, Shattuck, Tamara

“…Despite the prevalent use of observational measures in teacher evaluation systems, research has only recently begun to take into account how aspects of the…”
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Examining the connection between preservice teachers’ discussion performance in a mixed reality teaching simulation with their self-reported goals and success in facilitating discussions by Kinsey, Devon, Mikeska, Jamie N., Howell, Heather, Kaur Bharaj, Pavneet

“…With the growing use of mixed reality teaching simulations in teacher education there is a need for researchers to examine how preservice teacher (PST)…”
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Elementary preservice teachers' responsiveness while eliciting students' initial arguments and encouraging critique in online simulated argumentation discussions by Lottero‐Perdue, Pamela S., Masters, Heidi L., Mikeska, Jamie N., Thompson, Meredith, Park Rogers, Meredith, Cross Francis, Dionne

“…Engaging children in argumentation‐focused discussions is essential to helping them collaboratively make sense of scientific phenomena. To support this effort,…”
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Examining Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Answer Changing Behavior on a Content Knowledge for Teaching Science Assessment by Castellano, Katherine E., Mikeska, Jamie N., Moon, Jung Aa, Holtzman, Steven, Gao, Jie, Jiang, Yang

“…Preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) prepare for various standardized assessments, such as the Praxis® licensure assessment. However, there is little research…”
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Understanding Science Teaching Effectiveness: Examining How Science-Specific and Generic Instructional Practices Relate to Student Achievement in Secondary Science Classrooms by Mikeska, Jamie N, Shattuck, Tamara, Holtzman, Steven, McCaffrey, Daniel F, Duchesneau, Nancy, Qi, Yi, Stickler, Leslie

“…In order to create conditions for students' meaningful and rigorous intellectual engagement in science classrooms, it is critically important to help science…”
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Teaching "NGSS"-Aligned Lessons in Science Classrooms by JIN, HUI, MIKESKA, JAMIE N.

“…Abstract only…”
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